Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.

Albert Camus

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Albert Camus

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

Albert Camus

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

Albert Camus

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

Albert Camus

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

Albert Camus

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

America Ferrera

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Annie Besant

This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils.

Annie Lennox

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion

Annie Lennox

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Annie Lennox

I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.

AnnaSophia Robb

I didn't get joy from acting, I wouldn't do it. My passion for acting is growing and I love telling good stories and inspiring stories and helping to give a little happiness to the world and perhaps get the audience to think about different issues.

D. A. Carson

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

D. H. Lawrence

The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.

D. H. Lawrence

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

D. H. Lawrence

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

D. H. Lawrence

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

D. H. Lawrence

Persephone herself is but a voice or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom, among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom.

D. H. Lawrence

I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

D. H. Lawrence

And to my lips’ Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn...

Cristina Saralegui

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

Clara Schumann

How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.

Clare Balding

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

Elif Safak

While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.

What we try to do is try to hassle and take things away. We just try to play with a lot of passion and a lot of heart.

Alexander Ludwig

I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.

Alexander McQueen

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

Alexander Pope

And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

Alexander Pope

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

Alexander Pope

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Alexander Pope

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.