176 Quotes About Passions

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.

A writer is a sponge. He absorbs everything that flows in a liquid form: feelings, thoughts, emotions, pauses, desires, silences, addictions, aches, dreams, obsessions, and passions.

Of course my dreams lay leagues outside the reach of my resources and the grasp of my abilities. For if I did not dream something wildly bigger than myself, I might have some really good ideas but I don’t have any dreams.

More often than not, the greatest opposition to my dreams isn’t something that stands in front of me. Rather, it’s something that resides within me.

The search for what I need begins when it stops being about the search for what I need.

People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.