Consuming Passion Quotes

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

I read like the flame reads the wood.

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.

It's a very insular world, ballet. I feel if I had stayed much longer, it would've consumed me. I performed six days a week and rehearsed 10-plus hours a day. And you only see the people that you work with.

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy