Quotes About Passion

Your lustiness would be an open endorsement for her own ardor.

In the immortal words of Marge Simpson, "Passion is for teenagers and foreigners.

Go for the hum.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

He loved happiness like I love tea.

For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

It is want that does the world's arousing, and if it were not for that, who knows what might not be interrupted?

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. ...I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them...

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing

I've longed for fulfillment and all I find is torment. I had to choose between peace and passion. I chose passion, fool that I was!

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing, or thinking about writing.

On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in the bank, I'd be willing to have no home but the poorhouse in my old age, if I could look back now on having been the fine artist I might have been.

LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural... I have a right to love!

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

You know what it's like," said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

Life's funny chucklehead. You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something-something that really matters-in the end you die for nothing.

Life's funny...You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something—something that really matters—in the end you die for nothing.

I knew it wasn't about things being fair. It wasn't about them being easy or safe. It was about who I was, who I wanted to be, what I wanted my life to be about, what I wanted to stand for, live for, even die for if I had to. It was about what I wanted to make out of this soul God gave me.

And while he was speaking, did we not feel our hearts burning within us?

When he did speak, Mike still didn't answer me. He just said, "Life's funny, chucklehead. You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something— something that really matters—in the end you die for nothing.