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Passion Quotes


"Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be."


"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well."


"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."


"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."


"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."


"You are the mark on my liquid heartwhere love begins with the beginning's startYou are the desire of the ablaze fires the only truth from ten-thousand-liarsFrom the poem- A Letter to My Love."


"Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man."


"It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith... the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last."


"Far away soul in a dreamy stateForgotten slumber seemingly latePure rhythmic love now rising higherUnclad passion our only attire."


"We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses."


"I've known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real."


"There is only one passion that can help us control the many other passions that plague us; that is the passion to know and obey God. When we get out of touch with Christ, we begin touching the things of the world, trying to fill the void that human flesh craves."


"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason."


"If you're very passionate about your dream - chase it. It's attainable."


"Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all."


"Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know."


"If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it."


"Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know."


"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."


"I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either."


"Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios."


"Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors."


"I had hooked up my iPod to the speakers. The air was filled with the raw, sexy purr of Etta James. "The thing that's great about the blues," I told Luke, pausing to sip from my glass of wine, "is that it's about feeling, loving, wanting without the brakes on. No one's brave enough to live that way. Except maybe musicians."


"For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still."


"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."



"To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air."


"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."
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