Quotes about Passion
If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.
— Margaret Atwood
Then she let him lick her fingers for her. He ran his tongue around the small ovals of her nails. This was the closest she could get to him without becoming food: she was in him, or part of her was in part of him. Sex was the other way around: While that was going on, he was in her. I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
— Margaret Atwood
Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.
— Margaret Atwood
Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.
— Margaret Atwood
On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. He has no talent for monotony.
— Margaret Atwood
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I'm no authority on sane living. Which is all true and no hep at all, because this form of love is like the pain of childbirth: so intense it's hard to remember afterwards, or what kind of screams and grimaces it pushed you into.
— Margaret Atwood
As Saint Paul says, marry or burn.
— Margaret Atwood
Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.
— Margaret Atwood
He loved her so much when he made her unhappy, or else when she made him unhappy: at these moments he scarcely knew which was which.
— Margaret Atwood
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
— Margaret Mead
Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence
— Bill Gates
The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
— Kent Hughes