Quotes about Passion

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

No artist is pleased.... there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

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

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Therefore we are taught here that true vengeance is carried out, not by our passion but by God's command and on account of God. We are only the instruments of the avenging God, and we arrogate nothing of the vengeance to ourselves, as you see here.

Christ also said, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (Matthew 6:21). We pursue what we love. We talk about it because that is where our hearts and thoughts are. Augustine came right to the point when he said: "Whatever I love is my god.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.