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Quotes About Passion

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
~ Irving Stone
She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.
~ Janet Flanner
But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.
~ William Shakespeare
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.
~ Dionne Brand
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Sensuality is the death of the soul.
~ Honore de Balzac
Death is my lover and he wants to move in.
~ Unknown
All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death.
~ Gwendolyn B. Bennett
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
~ Alexander Pope
I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
~ Philip Roth
no, a mí no se me habría pasado por la cabeza abandonar la familia y la fábrica para dedicar todo mi tiempo a escribir, como él hizo.
~ Philip Roth
The mad desire to obliterate all! The mad desire to save all!
~ Philip Roth
Twist and shout, métetelo donde te quepa... eso y no La Internacional era su himno.
~ Philip Roth
A única obsessão que todos querem: 'amor'. As pessoas pensam que ao se apaixonar, elas se tornam inteiras? A união platônica de almas? Eu penso o contrário. Eu acho que você é inteiro antes de começar. E o amor quebra você. Você está inteiro, e então está quebrado.
~ Philip Roth
A única obsessão que todos querem: 'amor'. As pessoas pensam que ao se apaixonar, elas se tornam inteiras? A união platônica de almas? Eu penso o contrário. Eu acho que você é inteiro antes de começar. E o amor quebra você. Você está inteiro, e então está quebrado.
~ Philip Roth
This is what happens when you write books. There's not just something that drives you to find out everything—something begins putting everything in your path.
~ Philip Roth
El sexo es lo que desordena nuestras vidas normalmente ordenadas.
~ Philip Roth
Pero en cuanto quieres apasionadamente lo que se encuentra más allá de tu alcance, estás listo para la frustración, te estás preparando para cuando te obliguen a ponerte de rodillas.
~ Philip Roth
Whatever we set out to make- a meal, a table, a bed- we should make as well as we can. To do otherwise is spiritless.
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
All through the Bible, especially in the Prophets, we see a conflict raging within God. On the one hand God passionately loved the people he had made; on the other hand, God had a terrible urge to destroy the evil that enslaved them. On the cross, God resolved that inner conflict, for there God's Son absorbed the destructive force and transformed it into love. Disappointment with God
~ Philip Yancey
15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
~ Philip Yancey