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Passionate Quotes (page 70)

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams. Toni Morrison
Oprah Winfrey quote: "Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural."
Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural. Oprah Winfrey
Albert Einstein quote: "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein
The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone. C. S. Lewis
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. Milan Kundera
I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for sinful shadows who were careful not to interrupt me, careful not to disturb my reading, happiness, happiness, passion regained, genuine devotion, my prayers rising up and up through the clouds to the realm of pure music, to what for want of a better name we call the choir of the angels, a non-human space but undoubtedly the only imaginable space we humans can truly inhabit, an... Roberto Bolano
David Hume quote: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. David Hume
Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die. John Keats
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. W. Somerset Maugham
She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?' 'I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls. John Fowles
So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that. Herman Melville
I was seeking within myself the human being I had so long lost sight of, hoping that my passion had only been distorted but had never been completely suppressed, by the social illusion, by the dominant ideal of “concealing emotions”. I wished to shout: “I broke away from your cold and petrified world in which I was one of the wheels running noiselessly in the great machine, one of the idle wheels. I have plunged into an unknown abyss; and in this one hour of the plunge I have lived more fully... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Meg Cabot quote: "if you want to live forever, figure out what it is that you..."
if you want to live forever, figure out what it is that you feel passionate about, then follow that dream. Meg Cabot
Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible. Nicholas Sparks
Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create passions in men which did not exist in them before. It takes away the guard of reason and consequently forces us to produce those symptoms which many when sober have art enough to conceal. Henry Fielding

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