Quotes About Passion

Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If you don't obey it as a force in your life, it will tear you to pieces.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

there's no cure for love, when it hits you make up your mind, to live with it!

I know the music that makes him dance, and I intend to play it for him as long as i breathe.

There is no friendship possible between men and women[...]. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I beg you, eat me up. Want me down to the marrow.

I Drink. I Burn. I Dream. And Sometimes, I tell Stories !

for a week she has been tormented, she burns to write something, gentle warmth emanates from her whole body, but still nothing comes of it. Besides, at the same time she is also busy burning old books, manuals, professional papers, theoretical volumes--because they keep her from doing the one thing that now seems urgent and right to her: shouting her loud hymn of ecstatic pleasure, breaching the tide of the old tongue's hard blare.

Because Jonah's real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of eternity. He was granted an experience that women dream of: he lived when he was mature in the adored whale's belly. In real paradise. How does one get there? By disobedience. By passion. Running away.)

It beings with fear, passion begins with a fear. Fear is the trembling of faith. One cannot have faith without being afraid. One cannot have faith, no human being. Being human is that: to have faith that's been fractured then stuck back together.

Writing to touch with letters, with lips, with breath, to caress with the tongue, to lick with the soul, to taste the blood of the beloved body, of life in its remoteness; to saturate the distance with desire; in order to keep it from reading you.

I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs

I have volcanoes on my lands. But no lava: what wants to flow is breath.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H. Havelock Ellis

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 869

If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Feynman—mystifyingly brilliant at calculating, strangely ignorant of the literature, passionate about physics, reckless about proof—had for once overestimated his ability to charm and persuade these great physicists.