Quotes About Passion

Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation

In reference to how he came to love music after hearing Mozart's sonatas] I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty, at least for me.

Non ho alcun talento particolare, sono solo appassionatamente curioso.

Eu não tenho nenhum talento especial. Apenas sou apaixonadamente curioso

Como me gustaría comerme una buena verga

I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve man's condition than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general distrust.

The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

Herhangi bir ders veya hobiye duyulan sevginin, gorev duygusundan daha iyi bir ogretmen olduguna inaniyorum; en azindan kendim acisindan.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.)

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. Books are transformed by the sequence in which they are read.

Habla el autor] A los cuatro años descubrí que sabía leer. (...) No aprendí a escribir hasta mucho después, cumplidos los siete años. Quizá pudiese vivir sin escribir. No creo que pudiera vivir sin leer. (...)

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, writhing was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

You see, I'd behaved pretty badly. Losing my head about someone I didn't really love and hurting someone I did. Why is one so stupid? The heart has its reasons, said Will, and the endocrines have theirs.

I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.

Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen

The truth is paradoxical; but man's passion for rational coherence is even stronger than his love of truth.

And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.