Quotes About Passion

Do it because you would, not because you should.

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn't matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?

He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.

A shared passion for a subject, large or small, could quickly put two strangers into a special state of subdued rapture and rivalry, distantly resembling love; but you had to hit on the subject.

She didn't know what Senta was saying, beyond the recurrent sounding of the word Mann, but she sensed the presence of passionate love, and felt the air of legend, which had a natural hold on her.

And when he refused to tell her he loved her after sex, she broke all the dishes until her arms bled and the medics took her away. And he sat and blew Arabesques of smoke.

He feels himself falling. He wants to spend every minute with her, he wants to possess her, her purity, her body, her mind. She is what he has been waiting for. Now he can live.

At the beginning of each session, one of us will begin talking about some random idea, another person will chime in or change the subject, and miraculously, after twenty minutes, we find that we have zeroed in on a question that everyone is passionate about. What continues to astonish me is the frequency with which religion slips into the room, unbidden but persistent.

Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.

You must understand that knowledge is not all your heritage. I includes also courage and belief, like hers that we commemorate herein...and romance. Always, always romance.

A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.

War is a perversion of sex.

There is something in death akin to that which exists in love: both spur men to eloquence.

El amor no abraza, pensaba Rímini: hiere. No inunda, se clava.

What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

Twenty-two guys chasing a ball and a whole crowd screaming their heads off. It was an absurd ritual,

I loved them as poets love the poetry that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea.

Alan Watts, who gave us the image of trying to wrap up water with string, made the point that it is absurd to work at something you don't enjoy, purely to make more money to be able to live longer and continue doing something you don't like.

It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it... It's okay to find what makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are.

We've been making love these past two days by talking and I want for our bodies to join the conversation.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Ruhun Tutkunlar?

The desire to write grows with writing.