Quotes About Passion

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.

To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.

a life without love, is no life at all

Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness.

It probably isn't coincidental that so many of them are the work of writer-directors who are passionate about telling their stories—as opposed to journeymen who are simply carrying out an assignment

Bleed with us.

Wallace shared with the graduates, "In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. —G. K. Chesterton12

Of the three traditional ways of making a living — mud, blood, and grease — preaching involves all three: the mud pies of creativity, the blood bank of living in the Word, and the grease pit of hard work and dirty hands.

life without love, is no life at all

To become an artist you have to be curious.

the love of anything is the offspring of knowledge, love being more fervent in proportion as knowledge is more certain. And this certainty springs from a complete knowledge of all parts which united compose the whole of the thing which out to be loved.

E veramente accade che sempre dove manca la ragione suppliscono le grida[...]

Je tiefer das Gefühl, desto größer der Schmerz.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood...

I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

Dangerous forces lie within me. You awaken them, and not to your advantage. You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.