„I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
Quotes about passion
A collection of quotes on the topic of passion.
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„Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986
„To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable“
— Ludwig Van Beethoven German Romantic composer 1770 - 1827
Not found in Beethoven's known works. It may be a summary of the following description of Beethoven from his piano pupil Ferdinand Ries: "When I left out something in a passage, a note or a skip, which in many cases he wished to have specially emphasized, or struck a wrong key, he seldom said anything; yet when I was at fault with regard to the expression, the crescendo or matters of that kind, or in the character of the piece, he would grow angry. Mistakes of the other kind, he said were due to chance; but these last resulted from want of knowledge, feeling or attention. He himself often made mistakes of the first kind, even playing in public."
Disputed
Source: "When Beethoven gave me a lesson" https://books.google.com/books?id=j8RIq67v51cC&pg=PA294&dq=%22when+beethoven+gave+me+a+lesson%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI7Yyz0PiNyQIViDuICh1YIAzR#v=onepage&q=%22when%20beethoven%20gave%20me%20a%20lesson%22&f=false
„Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love and joy and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish
And in itself to ashes burn.“
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, book Hyperion
Hyperion, book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„I once had a friend call me (Harry) by accident. If there's another person in the room called Harry and somebody shouts their name I do respond slightly, which is embarrassing. But no one has ever said it in the throws of passion. That would be the end of that session. Go now!“
— Daniel Radcliffe English actor 1989
http://www.movietome.com/people/86509/daniel-radcliffe/trivia.html
„There is a difference between a passion and a fucking meltdown.“
— Nicki Minaj Trinidadian-born American singer, rapper and actress 1982
Source: Queen Radio Episode 8, September 10th, 2018
„I'm very embarrassing to look at. You know why? Here's why I'm embarrassing: 'cause there's a little bit of me in everybody… I'm like the boy that never grew up. I'm very, very passionate about what I do. I mean, I love what I do…. and people are like "God, give this guy a valium or something, you know? Can't he have a bad day?"“
— Steve Irwin Australian environmentalist and television personality 1962 - 2006
„I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.“
— Steve Irwin Australian environmentalist and television personality 1962 - 2006
from Crikey! What an Adventure on Animal Planet, 2007nb
„Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.“
— D.H. Lawrence English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter 1885 - 1930
„Long ago we conquered our passions
Looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.“
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
"Prayer," p. 47
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Pit of the Stone”
„I loved him as young Genius loves,
When its own wild and radiant heaven
Of starry thought burns with the light,
The love, the life, by passion given.
I loved him, too, as woman loves--
Reckless of sorrow, sin, or scorn:
Life had no evil destiny
That, with him, I could not have borne!“
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)
„I would rather die of passion than of boredom.“
— Emile Zola, book Au Bonheur des Dames
Source: The Ladies' Paradise
„What is man’s life but love, love of self;
Man is dust, dust as his passion, dust as the beloved.Death, it is your great act of piety for man –
You take him to your house or he’d be left to himself.Death is a covenant between the lover and the beloved;
Death is a secret wedlock between being and non-being.Death harbors the hidden port of life’s ocean;
Death is helpless and a vision of beauty to itself.Death is the only witness of my life and your grace,
And O strange lord, of night and the crescent.“
— Ghani Khan Pakistani poet 1914 - 1996
Death, st. 8-12
„Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.“
— Erich Fromm German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900 - 1980
„The chain of young life is broken,
The journey is ended, the hour has struck, it is time to leave,
Time to go where there is no future,
No past, no eternity, no years;
Where there are no expectations, no passions,
No bitter tears, no fame, no honour;
Where memory sleeps deeply
And the heart in its narrow coffin home
Does not feel the worm gnawing it.“
— Mikhail Lermontov Russian writer, poet and painter 1814 - 1841
"Death" (1830 or 1831)
Poems
„You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand… but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.“
— Mikhail Lermontov, book A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)
„My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.“
— Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
„What can I write about Vytautas Juozapaitis? Months ago, a singer with this same name gave one of the most Mozartean accounts of Don Giovanni I've ever experienced: a lean, yet warm sound, exciting and a little on the dangerous side - utterly (and wonderfully) self-absorbed. The man singing Giorgio Germont could not possibly have been this same artist. This was Verdi singing of the highest order - as if to the manor born. A molten, rich expressivity and attention to Verdian line that in its size, detail and musicality recalled the greats: Gorin, Merrill… you get the idea. The name may not trip off American tongues with ease… yet, but in an era often thought bereft of Verdian voices Juozapaitis is the real deal. Every moment of his Germont was filled passion and, like all of the cast members, every word of the Italian was naturally produced and understandable. Mama mia this man's got it!“
— Vytautas Juozapaitis Lithuanian opera singer 1963
Paolo Padillo, "A Traviata of Note: Teatro Lirico d'Europa". Opera - L (March, 2004) http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0403d&L=opera-l&F=&S=&P=15287
„If you care passionately about something has become the only test to determine if something is constitutional. How passionately do you care?“
— Antonin Scalia former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1936 - 2016
Speech at the University of Chicago Law School http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2003/05/09/justice_scalia_speak.php (6 May 2003).
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