Passion Quotes

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

~ Aldous Huxley

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.

~ Paulo Coelho

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

~ Émile Zola

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

~ Mark Z. Danielewski

The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her

~ Lisa Kleypas

I'll always choose you. Yes that was the word. Every single lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.

~ Lauren Kate

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

~ Martha Graham

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

~ Oscar Wilde

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

~ Albert Camus

and I wonder if Beethoven held his breaththe first time his fingers touched the keysthe same way a soldier holds his breaththe first time his finger clicks the trigger.We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

~ Andrea Gibson

Why am I covered in feathers? I asked, confused. He exhaled impatiently. I bit a pillow. Or two...

~ Stephenie Meyer

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

~ Albert Camus

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols...

~ Hermann Hesse

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

~ Gautama Buddha

I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. Iwill not be bound by anything but my love for you.

~ Lauren Kate

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

~ Alexander Pope

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

~ James Joyce

I will love you when you are a still day.I will love you when you are a hurricane.

~ Clementine Von Radics

Before, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. Now I want to write you, talk with you... I love when you say all that happens is good, it is good. I say all that happens is wonderful. For me it is all symphonic, and I am so aroused by living - god, Henry, in you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness... Before, I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on... I never feel the brakes. I overflow. And when I feel your excitement about life flaring, next to mine, then it makes me dizzy.

~ Anaïs Nin

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

~ Anaïs Nin

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

~ Werner Herzog

The eyes are one of the most powerful tools a woman can have. With one look, she can relay the most intimate message. After the connection is made, words cease to exist.

~ Jennifer Salaiz

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

~ John Adams

I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.And it seemed so easy, once he capitulated. It seemed natural and right.Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.

~ Lisa Kleypas

We fucked a flame into being.

~ D.h. Lawrence

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox, that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.

~ Coco J. Ginger

The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.

~ Alexandra Elle

Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body.

~ Jeanette Winterson

She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.

~ Hermann Hesse

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

~ Thomas Hardy

He opened his eyes to reveal the storm within him. “My every instinct is telling me to have my way with you.” He was dead serious and my cheeks heated. Fire shone in his eyes and I broke eye contact, burying my face into his cotton-covered chest. “But not nearly as difficult as going all this time without you,” he said.

~ Wendy Higgins

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

~ Stefan Zweig

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

~ Annie Dillard

Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.

~ Crystal Woods

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

~ John Galsworthy

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.