Quotes About Passion

The poet pursues the trouble in your heart as pitilessly as he has ferreted out his own.

Poetry and love can calculate past infinity.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

I'm quitting to pursue my dream of not working here.

The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

the thunder is in our veins the lightning in our very souls

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled...

I think I could fall madly in bed with you.

Lust will curdle like milk if you don't keep using it up.

There may be some things better than sex, and some things may be worse. But there is nothing exactly like it.

I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

You know you're a skydiver when you wear your rig on commercial passenger flights, just in case.

You know you're a skydiver when on windy days you go to the drop zone anyway and complain about the weather.

You know you're a skydiver when you'll wake up at 6:30 am on the weekends to get to the drop zone, but you can't seem to get up by 7:30 on the weekdays to be at work by 8:00.

You know you're a skydiver when you buy anything you calculate how many skydives it will cost.

The cigarette is a mortal passion.

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.