Quotes About Passion

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Poetry like love risks everything on signs.

Do what you love and the business will follow.

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.

Quand on aime la vie, on ne lit pas.

We are probably wrong to suspect that each individual has some secret passion, some mystery, some weakness; if Jean-Yves's father had had to express his innermost convictions, the profound meaning he ascribed to life, he could probably have cited nothing more than a slight disappointment.

If they can read in the eyes of a man an energy, a passion, then they find him attractive.

När man älskar livet läser man inte.

Sexual pleasure was not only superior, in refinement and violence, to all the other pleasures life had to offer; it was not only the one pleasure with which there is no collateral damage to the organism, but which on the contrary contributes to maintaining it at its highest level of vitality and strength; it was in truth the sole pleasure, the sole objective of human existence

Je me suis souvenue, dit Cécile, que dans le temps tu recopiais des phrases sur un cahier, des phrases d'écrivains, celles que tu trouvais les plus belles.

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model airplanes.

Toute grande passion débouche sur l'infini. La littérature est, profondément, un art conceptuel; c'est même, à proprement parler, le seul. L'homme n'est décidément pas fait pour le bonheur.

Innostukseni pilluihin ei ole heikentynyt, koen sen yhdeksi viimeisiä tunnistettavia inhimillisiä piirteitäni, muista en ole niinkään varma.

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, after I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.

Se c'è un termine che mi definisce veramente è «troppo». Mi innamoro troppo. Mi appassiono troppo. Mi stanco troppo. Mi arrabbio troppo.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

Cel ce iubirea-si ia drept arma, frange destin si ura, forta si mizerii.

What is life," he asked the maiden, "without love? I would rather have this one night with you than another thousand years.

Infatuation isn't a subtle emotion

Why did something so wrong have to feel so right

He'd taken her fully and completely. Pierced her with that amazing piece of manliness.