“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”— A.S. Byatt, amazon.com
“Fire and water,… don’t really mix. You could say they’re incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.”— Cornelia Funke, amazon.com
“You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.”— Anita Ofokansi, amazon.com
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, amazon.com
“She was beautiful. God I loved her. I just didn’t know how to show it, that’s all.”— Dir. Frank Darabont, amazon.com
“Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a…”— James Dean, wordsfortheyear.com
“It’s never too late to change the direction that your life is going in.”— Wayne Dyer, fyp-psychology.com
“The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”— Edmund Burke, amazon.com
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”— Tom Bodett, amazon.com
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”— Lao Tzu, goodreads.com
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.”— Simon Sinek, goodreads.com
“This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to…”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”— Robert Sternberg, goodreads.com
“What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a [woman], and the…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.”— Niklaus Wirth, en.wikiquote.org
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”— Henry James, amazon.com