Quotes About Passion

Destruction is tragic and piteous and beautiful. The dream of destroying, building anew, perfecting. Perhaps even, once one has destroyed, the day of perfecting may never come, but in the passion of love I must destroy. I must start a revolution.

I wanted once in my lifetime to know that great savage joy, no matter how immense the suffering that might ensue.

Destruction is tragic and piteous and beautiful. The dream of destroying, building anew, perfecting. Perhaps, even, once one has destroyed, the day of perfecting may never come, but in the passion of love, I must destroy.

Why is physical love bad and spiritual love good? I don't understand. I can't help feeling that they are the same. I would like to boast that I am she who could destroy her body and soul in Gehenna for the sake of a love, for the sake of a passion she could not understand, or for the sake of the sorrow they engendered.

By weaving your passion and unique skills with a need or cause, and standing with the people you want to serve, you will be well-positioned to make a meaningful dent in the world.

Sex is about connection and intimacy, but also it's about having fun.

The only way to become a doer is to find something worth doing.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

The true craftsman has a light in his eye that Money can't buy Hal Stebbins I read this once when I was Writing a children's story; a time when inspiration had struck...At that time I knew just what he meant...It was so true. Shirley Briggs

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.