Quotes about Passion
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
care to explain, so he turned her into his arms and kissed her. When he pulled away, her eyes blinked open as if her lids were almost too heavy to hold up. "You really shouldn't kiss me like that, Rafe. I swear when you do it, I can't seem to think clearly." "Why don't you just relax and let me do the thinking for the both of us for a while?
— Mary Connealy
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
— Robert Frost
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
— Oscar Wilde
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.
— Oscar Wilde
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about
— Oscar Wilde
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.
— Euripides
'Why do we have to listen to our hearts?' 'Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.' 'But my heart is agitated,' the boy said. 'It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her.' 'Well, that's good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.'
— Paulo Coelho
All mankind loves a lover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson