Quotes About Passion

Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Hell has degrees, so does love

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all

All diese Ratschläge, die ich Dir gebe, sind vergeblich und töricht. Niemand wird sie befolgen können. Aber ich wollte nichts anderes als: Bei Gelegenheit Deiner Kunst ein Gedicht schreiben, dessen Inbrunst Dir in die Wangen steigt. Es handelte sich darum, Dich zu entflammen, nicht Dich zu lehren." -Genet (Der Seiltänzer)

What we need is hatred, from it our ideas are born

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.

Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!

on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

Now, once one has got to know these people at all, it's apparent that they love the wind to distraction and that they'd even pay to have wind. They've no need to pay, they've got it, solidly and permanently.

She listened; she heard the dull thumping of her blood which seemed to be tramping on her with a heavy heel.    She passed her left hand across the night to feel the man's firm wrist, which was against her right hand. It was all knotted like a gnarled branch. It filled her left hand with warm flesh which was supple and finely nerved.    "I can't explain....They all have their women. Such a passion has seized the earth...such a passion!" 

All he had ever wanted was to tell—in the best possible words, arranged in the best possible order—the stories inside him.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

I don't know why my books are so popular. I'm writing to please only myself, a book I would like to read.

When I first started I was obsessed--putting in 16 hours a day, seven days a week, and loving it. My in-laws told my husband that perhaps he should get some help for me. Once the book was published it was OK because writers can be a little crazy.

I love being able to learn whatever I want and earn a living at it. Research is fun; writing is hard work.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

And, what is more, we know how an all-consuming passion for freedom in the world never fails to lead to conflicts and wars which are no less consuming.

It is no longer a passion hidden in my heart: it is Venus herself fastened to her prey.

I loved him too much not to hate him at all!

I have loved him too much not to hate

I cherished you inconstant; what would I have done, faithful? Now, even now, when your cruel mouth so calmly speaks my death sentence, I wonder, cold wretch, I wonder still, if I do not love you.