Quotes About Passion

Andrew would say that dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something, Andrew would say, is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe, Andrew would say.

The backside of Hollywood passion is disappointment and loneliness—and more often than not, resentment and cynicism about the nature of love itself. Betsy and I were building more of a symphony than a pop song.

Andrew would say that dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something, Andrew would say, is the hard thing.

Than the crunch of broken lives and bones. This is why when our eyes are languid And passion begins to seethe stormily in the breast, I want to write on your sentence One unquavering thing: "Up against a wall! Shoot!" 23

Leaders need to have a fire in their heart, and a good reason for being—the

Decades with Paola had accustomed Brunetti to the extremity of most of her positions; they had also taught him that, on the subject of the Church, she was immediately incandescent and seldom lucid.

Young people longed to change the world, regardless of the cost to themselves or others.

I'm glad I'm sitting down, Guido. You make my knees go all wobbly.

How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.

And if beauty is terror," said Julian, "then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?" "To live," said Camilla. "To live forever," said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.

it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

isn't the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?

There's no 'rational grounds' for anything I care about.

It's crazy, she'd said, but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.)

For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless.

To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal!

is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

A moi, L'historie d'une de mes folies.

But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

Es una locura, pero sería feliz mirando los mismos seis cuadros el resto de mi vida. No se me ocurre una forma mejor de enloquecer.

I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.")

My heart - which, thrilled at my daring, had held its breath for a moment or two - began suddenly to beat quite wildly

Do you really think what we do is work? - What else should I call it? I should call it the most glorious kind of play.

Give my life, gladly! I will never love any person on the earth like Katya again—not even close. She was the one. I would die and be happy for only one day with her. But—" pushing his sleeve back down—"you should never get a person's name tattooed on you, because then you lose the person. I was too young to know that when I got the tattoo.