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Quotes About Passion

A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.
~ Chris Kilham
There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.
~ Darren Criss
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
~ Ella Maillart
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
~ Ezra Pound
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
~ Max Beckmann
My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.
~ Mike Tyson
A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
~ Napoleon Hill
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
I live, like every real man, in my work.
~ Max Frisch
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
~ Aeschylus
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
~ Alexander McQueen
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
~ Aristotle
I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.
~ Miguel Ferrer
Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.
~ Pope Pius II
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.
~ Ray Manzarek
It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.
~ Ray Nitschke
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
~ Robert Henri
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
~ Jane Austen