Quotes About Passion

what you call my struggle to submit . . . is not struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy—fully armed too as it's a highly dangerous quest." —FLANNERY O'CONNOR

If I can't play music that people appreciate, then I want to play music that people love.

That's when you fall in love with somebody. The lust and fucking like rabbits and letting your life fall to shit so you can be around him—that's passion. It's borderline obsession. And it always burns itself out. You know that, Liddie. That high never, ever lasts.

Kate's knees felt shaky as she walked across the parking garage under the Barbizon Hotel. Every atom in her body was vibrating at a different frequency. Her lips felt swollen from Philip's kisses. Her breasts were tender from his mouth. If she closed her eyes, she could summon up the sensations of his tongue roaming up and down her body.

If you love music—really, truly, love music—then you play it for yourself.

The lust and fucking like rabbits and letting your life fall to shit so you can be around him - that's passion. It's borderline obsession. And it always burns itself out.

that was more than love. That was being in love. It was so tangible I could almost touch it with my hands. I could bite it with my teeth.

In virtue of the name of Pontius Pilate being connected with Him, the life and passion of Jesus Christ is an event in the same world history in which our life also takes place.

No heroism in forever following the calculations of one's cunning mind. A man ought to attempt the illogical, if there's fire in his heart.

The French say you get hungry when you're eating, and I get inspired when I'm working. It's my engine

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose i'm the happy victim of books

The write must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money

About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn't know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

Come away with me now, sweet tease, and we will pleasure each other all the night long. We will strip off these masks, and with them rid ourselves of all inhibition. You do not yet know me, but I will soon know your every delectable inch, taste your nectar, explore your most intimate, womanly secrets. I will take you where you have never been, touch you in ways you have never been touched. Until you weep with the joy of it.

the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

Love. Love wasn't sweet and light, it was visceral and overpowering. Love wasn't patient, love wasn't kind. Love was ferocious, love knew how to play dirty.

I have no idea how to love another human being unless it's by tearing them to pieces and eating them.

She could have started up a branch library (or a spectacular house fire)

You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.