Quotes About Passion

A life without orgasms is like a world without flowers.

Vocation at its deepest level is, This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

Inside, she vibrated with a passion to discover life's secrets, a passion to right wrongs, a passion to unfold the petals of the heart. But even I didn't know that then. Rebellious, she accepted his offer to accompany him to the Moulin Rouge. 

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Totusi, destul de iute simplicitatea actului sexual m-a plictisit; in cele mai rele excese percepeam monotonie si patos mult. Oricat de puternica era desfatarea, ea nu era niciodata destul de puternica. Mi-am dat seama atunci ca trupul e limitat, spre deosebire de gand.

All Achilles's emotions seemed to be varying shades of anger.

If any man love the instruments of any craft, the gods have called him.

If any man loves the instruments of any craft, the gods have called him.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work.

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

But let me begin with a statement of my own passionate and indignant belief--I do not care one goddamned thing about how James Dickey conducted his personal life. I care everything about what this man wrote on blank sheets of paper when he sat alone probing the extremities of imagination.

One must always forgive another's passion.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

And each year, I lose a little bit more of what made me special as a kid. I don't think as much or question as much. I dare nothing. I put nothing on the line. Even my passions are now frayed and pathetic.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

Because I've gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.

She took my hand and squeezed it. "You sold yourself short. You could've been more than a teacher and a coach." I returned the squeeze and said, "Listen to me, Savannah. There's no word in the language I revere more than teacher. None. My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming one.

I studied their relationship with something approaching awe because I could not figure out what made it work. I felt love between these two people but it was a love without flame or passion. There were also no rancors or fevers, no risings or ebbings of the spirit to chart, just a marriage without weather, a stillness, a resignation, just windless days in the Gulf Stream of their quiet aging.