Quotes About Passion

I felt pleasantly tired, but Steve seemed more energized the longer we stayed in the bush. I would see it again and again over the years. This was where Steve belonged, and where he seemed most alive.

He would hand Bindi and Robert his knowledge of nature and the bush, just as Bob and Lyn had handed it down to him. This is what few people understood about Steve--his relationship with his family, and the tradition of passion and commitment and understanding that passed from generation to generation.

There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in life, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

What you write chooses you.

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.

The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.

Poetry was alive and dangerous.

Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.

The ocean tosses up a thousand arms to embrace the storm that falls across her like a drunken sailor. His thunder slaps her thighs, his lighting piercing her waters. They pound me between the hips and I begin to panic, knowing their passion will destroy me.

1. Passion; 2. An eye of discernment; 3. An empty vessel; 4. An ability to be uncertain; 5. Belief in the necessity of art and artists; 6. A medium—bringing a passionate and informed understanding of works of art to an audience in ways that will stimulate, inspire, question; 7. Making possible the altering of perception.6

That's what poems are for, unlivable love." epigraph to "In Lilac-Light

If you've lived only by reasonableness, well, you have missed the show, haven't you?

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

This is what had always happened to women when they had too much time to think: they made themselves conduits to all the passions in the universe, they dreamed open all the possibilities that sane hard-working people kept shut away.

Sheila thought that passion was a story people dreamed up to save themselves from boredom

Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart.