Quotes About Passion

loving music didn't have to mean wanting the same song all the time, or believing it perfect, and that what you loved didn't have to add up, let alone define you.

As Barbara Kingsolver said, "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

strong circle of his own. He leaned to kiss her neck. Her eyelids remained closed as she dropped her head to the side. "Don't," she whispered raggedly. But his lips moved to hers while he held her with one arm, peering past her cheek as he turned off the oven. Continuing to control her movements with his own, he opened the oven door while pulling her two steps away to make room for its downward swing. "Don't.

Al besarse, eran sólo un hombre y una mujer

Happy people got something to fight for.

Dímelo otra vez —pidió, insaciable. —¿Qué? —lo provocó. —Ya sabes qué. Dímelo. —Te amo. —Otra vez. Tengo que oírlo una vez más. —Te amo. —¿No te cansarás nunca de que te pida que me lo digas? —No tendrás que pedírmelo. —Ni tú a mí. Te amo.

According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.

We might be mad or stupid, but at least we were serious.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...

A rocket or a bridge. That's the only way I can really describe it. If there is a river between our sleeping bodies, this is the bridge that crosses it. ... I can just fit my fist around the base without waking him. I love it so much I want to bite it.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

If the robot can recognize the clean flame of life in men who have never fallen from life then he repents, and his will breaks, and a great love of life brings him to his knees, in homage and pure passion of service. Then he receives the kiss of reconciliation and ceases to be a robot, and becomes a servant of life.

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Music is only love looking for words.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Fuck Art, let's Dance!

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.