Quotes About Passion

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me...

The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Thomas Mann

Envy is often a clue that there is something latent in you that needs to be expressed.

I had no idea how to find work I'd love doing. Even the idea of trying felt wildly irresponsible.

Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy. Stuart Wilde

Only to themselves are the passionate hot. To the objects of their passion they are cold. What Yeats knew. They eradicate what they notice, as the thumb hard-crams the clay impressionable under it, to lie flat, apt to the shape their cold-steel scribes may cut or spurn it to. Yet they know passion must drown to ripen sweet & give fair play to the whole life hot passion speeds us from.

As passion's object, dig with your ampersand: be cold & hot. The receptive earth will come to transform the root-end that your planting hand cut & abandoned, to new chrysanthemum. Heartfelt thought, drop your guard, keep clear, be slow; double your careful opposites & grow.

Burn, or speak your mind. For the oak to untruss its passion it must explode as fire or leaves.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

I grasp his salt and pepper hair to steady myself as his tongue lingers and plays, making my legs feel weak with desire. - from The Gorgeous Girls by Marie Wilson

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

When people try to evade problems you first have to ask if it is not just laziness. Jung once said, "Laziness is the greatest passion of mankind, even greater than power or sex or anything." (p. 77)

Outrage... can (and often does) look like arrogance or offensiveness or, certainly, impropriety. But it can be what fuels love of justice and mercy.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I've ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

Sweetheart, it isn't lust; it's all the rest of what I want with you that scares me shitless.

i love erotic books.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.