Quotes About Passion

What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

Favorite book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.

Show me life as I've learned it:blood and guts,violence and sex.

Apricot in Red Wine" for Alicia She lay wrapped in a soft-white blanket, imagining how warm it would be–her back against his chest, their bodies curved around each other. She has this addicting idea that his thumbs will fit perfectly into the groove of her hips–his breath on her neck. Leading him by the hand to her bedroom, she silently lets him undress her, promising to be quiet, to be quiet enough that no one will hear Her naked soul

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

No person ever really lives until he has found something worth dying for.

These beings have no other profession than to cultivate the idea of beauty in their person, to satisfy their passions, to feel and to think.

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. As it turns out, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters.... But with what? With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

What is annoying in love, is that it is a crime in which one cannot do without an accomplice.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters... But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

What do I care that you are good?Be beautiful! and be sad!

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Making love to him was like going through a car wash, except you came out dirtier and more alive at the other end.

You fall in love with someone not because he's nice to you or can read your mind but because, when he kisses you, your knees weaken, or because you can't stop looking at his skin or at the way his legs, inside his jeans, shape the fabric.

Creating a scene is thus the staging of a desire.