Quotes About Passion

You know what it's like to look at someone and realize they're hungry for you?

Art for art's sake but money for Christ's sake.

The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fish—a fragment of an idea—that fish will draw in other fish, and they'll hook onto it. Then you're on your way. Soon there are more and more and more fragments, and the whole thing emerges. But it starts with desire.

I don't know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it's a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it's like falling in love with a girl. It could be a girl you wouldn't want to take home to your parents, but you don't care what anybody else thinks. You're in love and it's beautiful and you stay true to those things.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

Unrequited love is the foundation for fatal attraction.

In humans, guarding a bond must last more than days, months, or even years because love can last a lifetime. The dangerous emotion of jealousy evolved to fill this void. Love and jealousy are intertwined passions. They depend on each other and feed on each other.

Nuestros pensamientos relacionados con el emparejamiento -lo maravilloso del idilio, el arrebato de la pasión, el triunfo del amor- son el producto afortunado de ese proceso evolutivo.

People who write novels only write them when they have very little else to write

Demasiadas notas, mi querido Mozart.

finding your vocation in life is discovering the place '...where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

We approach romance like a privileged form of suffering that makes us feel more alive—living dangerously, magnificently, and tragically.

but all of a sudden they're poets, right, like that's all it takes — being in love.

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it.

Neither of them had ever picked up a pen in their life, but all of a sudden they're poets, right, like that's all it takes—being in love.

Wants to set the world on fire, and if it can't happen by tomorrow morning at nine a.m., then life's just unfair and hardly worth living.

Behind the naive vanities, the daydreams, they had very badly wanted to be writers. Had wanted it without knowing at all what it was they wanted, their fervor making up for their ignorance. His older self was cooler, more noncommittal, for he had learned that to publicize your goals means running the risk of falling short of them.

One day I'll wish I had a recording of Gretchen that I could play when I start feeling sorry for myself. I don't know that I've ever met a more enthusiastic person. Her key, I think, is that she's never stopped being interested in things. She's never decided that everything reminds her of something else, that everything worthwhile has been crossed off her list.

I sat him down the other night and explained as gently as possible that I do not care about ice-skating. I do not care about Michelle Kwan or Tara Lipinski and would be happy if I never hear the words triple lutz or double axel again. I told him that on Friday and walked into the kitchen an hour later to find him in tears. "It's heartbreaking," he said, watching his beloved skaters.

Do you have a feel for the guitar? Do you have any idea what this little baby is capable of?" Without waiting for an answer, he climbed up into his chair and began playing "Light My Fire," adding, "This one is for Joan.

Too many musicians — singers and instrumentalists — performed it so many times that it's hard not to just go through the motions of playing (or singing) the notes, rather than remembering that you have to turn the notes into real music.

the very first thing that happens with any zealot is that he removes his brain just in case any thoughts that might challenge his zealotry should happen to stray into it.

if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.