Quotes About Passion

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When Less is More, you often get More with Less. More passion with less planning. More love and intimacy with less information and grief. More freedom with less fretting. And, yes, while we're at it, more style with less stuff.

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I've gotten to make my living by my imagination. That's a lovely thing.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god.

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

passion is by no means the fuller life which it seems to be in the dreams of adolescence, but is on the contrary a kind of naked and denuding intensity, verily, a bitter destitution, the impoverishment of a mind being emptied of all diversity, an obsession of the imagination by a single image.

So soon as passion goes beyond instinct and becomes truly itself, it tends to self self-description, either in order to justify or intensify its being, or else simply in order to keep going.

I give my mind the liberty to follow the first wise or foolish idea that presents itself, just as in the avenue de Foy our dissolute youths follow close on the heels of some strumpet, then leave her to pursue another, attacking all of them and attaching themselves to none. My thoughts are my strumpets.

Nous aimons, sans nous en douter, tout ce qui nous livre à nos penchants, nous séduit et excuse notre faiblesse.

LE PASSIONI MODERATE, PRODUCONO UOMINI MEDIOCRI...

Write naked. That means to write what you would never say. Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can't waste it. Write in exile, as if you are never going to get home again, and you have to call back every detail.

Write naked. Write in exile. Write in blood.

Three Rules To Write By Write naked. That means to write what you would never say. Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can't waste it. Write in exile as if you are never going to get home again, and you have to call back every detail. Denis Johnson

Is that why I went wild over her? Because once I saw her truly? Is devotion as simple as that?

They started calling it The Rape, and it came to stand for everything: for coming together while falling apart; for loving each other and hating everybody else; for moving at breakneck speed while getting nowhere; for freezing in the streets and melting in the rooms of love.

It made me in all matters a fundamentalist. I didn't go to 'take it in.' I went to be convicted.

First I put my lips to her upper lip, then to the bottom of her pout, and then I kissed her fully, my mouth on her open mouth, and we met inside.

Oh, well," Sands said, thinking that when passion stirred Major Eddie's heart, he tended to speak in a kind of poetry—you wouldn't do it justice to call it lying.

So...what do you want to do? He didn't even have to think about it. Kiss you again.

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.