Passion Quotes

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it g...

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and dee...

I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am m...

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existe...

Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am alwa...

Wild Nights – Wild Nights!Were I with theeWild Nights should beOur luxury!Futile – the winds –To a h...

Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history o...

On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing ...

It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, ...

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when on...

Love thou thy dreamAll base love scorning,Love thou the windAnd here take warningThat dreams alone c...

I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my ...

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your t...

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship an...

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion st...

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think the...

The fire, baby. It'll burn us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior ...

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either cease...

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

I have loved to the point of madness that which is called madness that which to me is the only se...

You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress ...

The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something...

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known,...

Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know y...

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it w...

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, how...

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rath...

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushin...

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was i...

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is...

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred ...

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which dete...

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at...

Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a ...

[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty...

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that break...

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

Be the flame, not the moth.

Happy are those lovers who when their senses require rest can fall back upon the intellectual enjo...

Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not be...

I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human...

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passio...

...perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they wou...

Is it not rather the touch of Love, of Love the Mysterious, who seeks constantly to unite two beings...

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and whit...

There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's r...

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man f...

Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds.

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

It was as natural and obvious to me as breathing. So I assumed that everyone else was doing it too. ...

Passion can’t sustain itselfforever.

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice abou...

Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends ...

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successivel...

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the me...

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our pas...

What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fa...

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...

The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Advers...

I am a star in the firmamentthat observe the world, despises the worldand consumed in its heat.I am ...

She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him i...

Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of l...

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air o...

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite di...

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpleton...

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most s...

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...

The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping...

You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you a...

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd lo...

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved ...

every good artist paints what he is

As the days went by, the evolution of like into love was accelerated.  White Fang himself began to g...

Gauguin was a stockbroker in Paris, married, had five kids. One day he came home from work and told ...