Passion Conflict Quotes

Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.

I've grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports. People would ask me, 'What would you choose?' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'

The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.

I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.