Quotes About Passion

You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.

Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

A true vocation calls us out beyond ourselves; breaks our heart in the process and then humbles, simplifies and enlightens us about the hidden, core nature of the work that enticed us in the first place.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.

True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire

As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns, a point where my strength will begin to wane. Until then, I'll just keep plodding onward, putting one foot in front of the other to the best of my ability. Smiling the entire time.

Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not pursued with the same heartfelt intensity as when first born. Slowly, subtly, a dream becomes elusive and ephemeral. People who've lost their own dreams become pessimists and cynics. They feel like the time and devotion spent on chasing their dreams were wasted. The emotional scars last forever.

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it's like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can't just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

How passionately we love everything that cannot last...

I love you more than life.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.

Mi sono sentito anch'io sull'orlo della noia, pervaso dalla malinconia degli amanti, quando tranne le scopate non succede più niente.

Grant me immoderation, the only way to save what we can of what we're given. The hell with equity.

Los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas.

Love is my only lifeline.

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love—where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?

It was, with no attempt at covering itself, the naked heart of a woman calling out to her man.

Se preguntó si era su juventud y su inocencia lo que habían dado tanta intensidad a ese amor. Quizás eso explicara su pasión ciega e insaciable. Cuando en un espasmo mordía el hombro de Oki, ni siguiera advertía la sangre que manaba de la herida.