Quotes About Passion

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

There's a narrow line between love and hate sometimes, you know. And it can be crossed unwittingly.

But what kind of love? It had so many faces, so many names. Jealousy wove a thread around it, and envy, and fear. People died for love–and killed for it. And yet in itself it was indefinable, it wore whatever passions people brought to it, like a mountebank, with no reality of its own.

What they fail to reckon with, however, is the reverse of that slogan: if nothing is worth dying for, is anything worth living for?

Two percent who care deeply about something are a more potent political force than the 98 percent who feel the opposite but aren't motivated enough to do anything about it.

Dearest, I don't like you a bit," Anthony interrupted again. "I think you're a very detestable, selfish pig and prig. But I'm often wildly in love with you, and so I see you're not. But I'm sure your only chance of salvation is to marry me.

opportunism" into "fervent zeal.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Lebe so, wie du es für richtig hältst. Und gehe, wohin dein Herz dich führt. Das Leben ist ein Theaterstück ohne vorherige Theaterproben. Darum: Singe, lache, tanze und ... liebe! Und lebe jeden einzelnen Augenblick deines Lebens... bevor der Vorhang fällt und das Theaterstück ohne Applaus zu Ende geht.

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

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As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

You are what you love, not what loves you.

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

We are what we love, not what loves us.

If we were poets, we'd starve on words.

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.