“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”— Beethoven, goodreads.com
“I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.”— Nick Cave, telegraph.co.uk
“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a tab…”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“True love isn’t just expressed in passionately whispered words or an intimate kiss or an embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.”— Joshua Harris, amazon.com
“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”— Thomas Moore, amazon.com
“I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make life beautiful.”— Robert Plant, en.wikiquote.org
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“We love in another’s soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.”— Irving Layton, amazon.com
“With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com