Quotes About Passion

It is true, Monsieur, Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library, to know, to study. But I have had no passion, I have not written my own book yet! I always found myself alone when we were two. One is not weak when one remains master of one's self in the midst of the most stupefying pleasures.

I am like a little child naked in a strong wind. I have a fever, I shiver, I'm too hot or too cold. My lips retain the unusual fruity taste of your mouth, & the bitter taste of your saliva lingers on my tongue, making me find everything I eat bland, sickening since nothing is as good as your love.

I want a dress the color of suffering

Depuis un moment, mais pour toute ma vie, J'aime, que dis-je, aimer ? J'idolâtre Junie.

Too late, too late, your love gave me life. Here am I the creature you made through your loving; by your passion you created the thing that I am. Who are you to deny me the right to love? But for you I need never have known existence.

as things turned out her choice had been happy, for seldom had two people loved more than they did; they loved with an ardour undiminished by time; as they ripened, so their love ripened with them.

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9

Ese día, para Farid el amor era parecido a un lujo.

Falling in love could be like falling off a cliff, no water below but plenty of rocks.

My rich Diana. Fly me to the moon with you. Dance among the stars. Treacle. Romantic hogwash. Derivative. Unworthy. My rich Diana. I hate you, hate you, hate you. Hate you, hate. Do it, he said.

If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself.

in ecstasy, it is essentially not about sensation but about passion, and passion is not of the flesh but of the mind and heart.

Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Whatever task you've taken, whatever fight you're facing, you must bring to it nothing less than everything you've got, or otherwise you'll fail for sure and always wonder what might have been if only you had given your all.

it is essentially not about sensation but about passion, and passion is not of the flesh but of the mind and heart.

If I ever sold my soul, it'd be for you.

instrument for nothing, and she had wanted to learn to play it largely because

Intensity. He believes in living with intensity.

she mainlines books as though they're heroin.

The excessive passion of your yearning could blind you to the mistakes you made, so that in the end, you were defeated by the sheer power of your need.

When a majority of people in any society share the same array of illusions and cling passionately to them, they will encourage one another until illusion becomes delusion, until delusion becomes mass insanity. Whole societies do go mad. History is filled with chilling examples. Joe Smith knew it when he built this house.

stamps, paintings—not least of all because he was eighty-nine and had spent his life learning.

So many people spend their lives in jobs they hate, and that's worse.

Jim Jamison, like Ed, loved music and art and history.