Passionate Quotes

1162 Passionate quotes by 937 unique authors

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific. — Jan Neruda
Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. — Jack London
Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life… — Bertrand Russell
Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I… — Toni Morrison
You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in… — Annie Dillard
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. — Milan Kundera
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you. — Anne Lamott
I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and… — Charles Dickens
It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly lit, light streaming… — Cassandra Clare
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions …… — Jean-Paul Sartre
i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat,… — Charles Bukowski
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is… — C.S. Lewis
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them… — William Goldman
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams… — Robin McKinley
She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent… — Eva Ibbotson
I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real. — Czeslaw Milosz
self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion... — W. Somerset Maugham
Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel… — Seth Godin
My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. — Susan Sontag
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That… — William Butler Yeats
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a… — Nelson Algren
I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons… — Pablo Neruda
I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite. — Kurt Cobain

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