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Quotes About Passion

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.
~ Holbrook Jackson
Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.
~ Jean Paul Gaultier
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
~ Juvenal
I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.
~ Kenneth Oppel
There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.
~ Lauren Oliver
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
~ William Blake
A man must earnestly want.
~ William Frederick Book
I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday.
~ Matt Nix
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
~ Michel de Montaigne
We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.
~ Milton Friedman
Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not search: they are emptied of desire, with neither hunger nor passion.
~ Muriel Barbery
Art is emotion without desire.
~ Muriel Barbery
There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.
~ Nate Lowman
Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.
~ Negash Ali
In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. ("Crépuscule du désir")
~ Erik Pevernagie
We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.
~ Nenia Campbell, Black Beast
My whole desire is to burn myself away.
~ Hafiz of Shiraz
Do not fear the fire within you, burning brighter than any star it attracts only those whose flame feeds off the very air that you breathe. Let passion be the inferno that engulfs your soul.
~ Virginia Alison
Trapped in infernoIt blazed brighter than the sunHis desire for her
~ Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
Don't limit your imagination, the best part of your life, is living your desires.
~ Ebelsain Villegas
Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .
~ Sameh Elsayed