Quotes About Passion

Perhaps it is essential to men to attain greatness in their works only when they do not look for it too hard.

Those who resisted were neither madmen nor wise men; they were heroes—men in whom passion and reason were identical, who in the obscurity of desire did what history expected and what was later to appear as the truth of the moment. We cannot remove the element of reason in their choice any more than the element of audacity and risk of failure.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

I'll eat you up I love you so.

Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don't like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it's vapid, so they'll go for the hard words, they'll go for the hard concepts, they'll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.

I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

At De Pauw I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it I did the thing in life I wanted to do—Writing.

In speculation, you should put your money into ventures that genuinely attract you, and only those.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul with all his strength and with all his will.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Política como vocación) La pasión no convierte al hombre en político si no está al servicio de una «causa» y no hace de la responsabilidad para con esa causa la estrella que oriente la acción. Para eso se necesita (y esta es la cualidad psicológica decisiva para el político) la mesura, capacidad para dejar que la realidad actúe sobre uno sin perder el recogimiento y la tranquilidad.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

What was love if it wasn't their own dauntless spirits pushing them toward their heart's desire?

This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read.

Will you tell me how a man's to live, and face his life, if he can't believe that truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen though it takes all the years there are? While I stand up and have breath in my lungs I shall be one flame of that fire; it's all the life I have.

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you.... It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it.