Quotes About Passion

They contemplate Christ's passion properly who look at it with a terrified heart and a despairing conscience.

Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

Do you beg to give away your resources? Are you working passionately to find ways to bless others? This is a sign of true generosity.

A Lutheran church in Nebraska is typically a place where any mad passion for Christ is politely concealed. Men and women recite the various creeds in hypnotic monotone; the hymns, pumped from wheezy organ pipes, are sung with no lilt or musicality. The members of the choirs not only don't dance, they don't sway. That's not to say no one is ever smacked hard with God's love or filled up to the eyeballs with the Holy Spirit, but when you are, you keep it to yourself." (48)

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

My lady, this is the truest madness.

He was like warm marble wherever she touched him, solid and unyielding, Michelangelo's namesake sculpture come to life.

Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

I vow that nothing- no law, no army, no faith- will keep me from your side.

The heart is a bloody thing.

There are two things that make the conscious world move, decision and desire.

Immediately he surprised her, for she like the way he kissed, like a man who wanted to swallow life.

True love is a blinding thing, it can color the experiences of even the worst events with a rosy tint, it can turn men and women into the best types of people—ones who will sacrifice the world for a shared moment of bliss.

Love is Venemous

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Todavía no sabía lo que era el amor ni si estaba enamorado de ella, pero cada vez que pensaba en ella sentía algo que no sentía salvo cuando lo sentía... No sabía por qué, ni qué significaba todo eso, ni qué debía hacer al respecto. Pero tratar de no sentirlo, tratar de que desapareciera, ahora le parecía algo profundamente equivocado.

subjects to continue to go on. Capitalist society's packaging of love as romance aims at eliminating the disruptiveness of love while sustaining its passion. This is an impossible task, and the love of the capitalist subject is always a diminished love insofar as it's safer.

There's just this empty shell, pretending to be human." "That's not true." I wished she could see herself the way I saw her- not some cold, distant model, but the girl who'd IM'd me and kept me from being alone. You're the most sincere, passionate, real person I've ever met." "I don't think that person exists anymore" "She does," I said. "I'm talking to her

What does it take to be a writer? 1) Foolhardily believing that someone might actually be interested in reading what you've written. 2) Spending an enormous amount of time writing it as well as you can. 3) Accepting that, at best, you'll probably be paid something around 25 cents an hour for your efforts.

Je désirais le mouvement et non une existence au cours paisible. je voulais l'excitation et le danger, et le risque de me sacrifier pour mon amour. Je sentais en moi une énergie surabondante qui ne trouvait aucun exutoire dans notre vie tranquille.

Ik verlangde naar beweging en niet naar een zo rustig voorbijgaand leven. Ik verlangde naar opwinding, naar gevaren, naar een gelegenheid mij op te offeren voor mijn gevoel.

Maar plotseling begon mijn hart sneller te slaan, mijn hand beefde en drukte de zijne; ik werd warm en met mijn ogen zocht ik in het halfduister zijn blik en plotseling voelde ik, dat ik niet bang voor hem was, maar dat deze angst liefde was, een nieuwe liefde, groter en inniger dan vroeger.