If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little neutral ambiguities. Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously. Let's live, you and I, as none have ever lived before.
To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.
Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.
A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.
Passionately enjoy life!
There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. . . . Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.
Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.
I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.
I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.