Quotes About Passion

I read and read and read with an intensity I'd never really known before. I mean, I'd always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.

I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires.

Don't do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It's always best to live it as yourself.

Love now. Love right now. If you have someone to love, do it this instant LOVE FEARLASSLY.

Sex can damage love but love can't damage sex.

Good. You are, of course, allowed to love food and music and champagne and rare sunny afternoons in October. You can love the sight of waterfalls and the smell of old books, but the love of people is off limits. Do you hear me? Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind . . .

Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The third option , I suppose , is that you write a book.

You couldn't be a little bit human in the same way you couldn't be a little bit in love. It was all or nothing. A drop was an ocean. And maybe being human wasn't even down to DNA in the end. Maybe it was about the ability to love, when you knew love was irrational. Yeah, maybe being human was to make no sense.

Don't do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It's always best to live it as yourself.

A kiss,' she said, 'is like music. It stops time...

Don't worry about things you can't control. The news is full of things you can't do anything about. Do the things you can do stuff about—raise awareness of issues that concern you, give whatever you can to whichever cause you feel passionate about, and also accept the things you can't do.

A Camus quote came to her, right in the middle of it. I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her. Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.

Kissing was very like eating. But instead of reducing the appetite, the food consumed actually increased it.

But you also have to know what you like. What to type into the metaphorical search box.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what did not. -Camus

Quizá no estaba seguro de lo que me interesaba realmente, pero, en todo caso, estaba completamente seguro de lo que no me interesaba.»

It's never too late to pursue a dream

Where we are from there are no crimes of passion because there is no passion.

She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her.

Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety.

Find a passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.

She wanted to have a purpose, something to give her a reason to exist.