Quotes About Passion

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this—with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell.

The greater the love, the more false to its object,Not to be born is the best for man;After the kiss comes the impulse to throttle,Break the embraces, dance while you can.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, as surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear that same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.

The surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.

As long as I love Beauty I am young.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

You have the greatest passion for your book so you need to show that passion and create an email list and different ways to connect with your readers.

And this brought forth a dream and soon enough/ This dream itself had all my thought and love

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

A lonely impulse of delight

if one writes one can do nothing else.

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O never give the heart outright, from "Never give all the heart

I kiss you and the world begins to fade. – W. B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire (? Jennings Press, August 25, 2008) Originally published 1894.

It's not a dream, But the reality that makes our passion As a lamp shadow—no—no lamp, the sun. What the world's million lips are thirsting for Must be substantial somewhere...

What hurts the soul My soul adores