Quotes About Passion

A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

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

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Man is young as long as he can repeat his emotions; woman, as long as she can inspire them

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.

What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.

When a man and woman share the love of cigars, it creates a unique intimacy.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.

Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover.

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.

Strong women leave big hickies.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

A woman knows she's wearing the right dress, when her man wants to take it off.