Quotes About Passion

When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.

A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

The loves of men but vary in degrees-- They find no new expression for the flame.

It's better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can't be yours, then never to love at all.

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

Love's all in all to women.

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.