Quotes About Passion

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my nonage, now more than half a century ago.... I read the poets diligently, and registered, in a portable form, whatever I thought apposite and striking.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

I caught him, yes, I held him—it may be imagined with what passion; but at the end of a minute I began to feel what it truly was that I held. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion.

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

What's a fuck when what I want is love?

What's a fuck when what I want is love?

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.

I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.

When she comes She pulls you close She breathes in short bursts Her eyes close Her head tilts back Her mouth opens slightly Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt She is perfect And you feel like you are everything.

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.