Quotes about Passion

Love is reverence, worship, glory, and the upward glance. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love—the total passion for the total height—you're incapable of anything less..

I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.

I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands...I want you like an animal...or a whore.

When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion -- that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet -- therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.

Someone once said that scientists and prostitutes get paid for doing what they enjoy.

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.