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Quotes About Passion

At the door I planted a kiss on Paul's mouth with an uncontrollable ardor that I actually did feel-a kiss of treachery, for I could still taste the other man in my mouth.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I wish I could love someone so much that I would die from it.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
The king is in the pasture. We are out in the field fearless of our shadows. Gallant to the service of mankind. A cry loud and clear. No passion to wait in vain."
~ Unknown
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
~ James A. Michener
Or is there something else you'd rather have?" she asked, her voice a little too gentle. He felt a great dilation in his chest. "Oh, no!" he exclaimed with passion. "Oh, no!" "Very well then, let's see what we can do about it," she said, more than reassured; and suddenly she suspected in something like its full magnitude the long, careless denial, and the importance of the cap to the child.
~ James Agee
it is not the "I" that has desires, it is desire that forms and sustains the "I".
~ Unknown
The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.
~ James Altucher
If something is not a "hell, YEAH!", then it's a "no!
~ James Altucher
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
He wanted to tell them of the stars. Of the lovers in their hellish graves.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Y es que el amor -lo que se dice amor- / llega muy pocas veces, aunque se obstinen tantos / en convertir el aureus en moneda corriente...
~ Unknown
For me, it was a film about passion, l'amour fou, the irresistible force that thrusts two people together, and about the impossibility of their ever becoming one.
~ Luis Bunuel
Me decía: ¡habrían tenido que hacerme leer a Sade antes que todas las demás cosas!
~ Luis Bunuel
sobre García Lorca) Podía leer cualquier cosa, y la belleza brotaba siempre de sus labios. Tenía pasión, alegría, juventud. Era como una llama.
~ Luis Bunuel
Diré cómo nacisteis, placeres prohibidos, Como nace un deseo sobre torres de espanto
~ Unknown
All that lasts of love is its poison.
~ Unknown
Éramos tão vorazes, no começo, que qualquer coisa menos que o mundo equivaleria a um coito interrompido.
~ Luis Fernando Veríssimo
Tus ojos que están llenos de selvas y son un manifiesto, desordenadamente me hacen aventurero y revolucionario
~ Unknown
In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.
~ Luis Suarez
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
~ Unknown
The act of writing and the act of love… are one and the same. Equivalent enquiry, similar search.
~ Luisa Valenzuela