Passionate Quotes

1162 Passionate quotes by 937 unique authors

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. — John Barth
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon… — William Butler Yeats
But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about… — Paulo Coelho
I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You… — J D Salinger
Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate. — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the… — Soren Kierkegaard
...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on… — Louisa May Alcott
He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride… — Louisa May Alcott
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,… — Victor Hugo
The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of… — George Saunders
However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they… — Ivan Turgenev
The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more… — Ian Fleming
The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in… — Victor Hugo
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled… — Thomas Mann
Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work… — Stephen Jay Gould
Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when… — Sherwood Anderson
I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just… — Bell Hooks
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor… — Philip Pullman
...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or… — Barbara Kingsolver
Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate… — John Patrick Shanley
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human… — Albert Einstein
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel… — Marilynne Robinson

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