Impassioned Quotes

• Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

  William Wordsworth

  Expression, Spirit, Poetry Is

  'Lyrical Ballads' (2nd ed., 1802) preface

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• poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

  William Wordsworth

  Poetry, Spirit, Breaths

  'Lyrical Ballads' (2nd ed., 1802) preface

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• Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Ambition, Effort, Generations

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• A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Self Improvement, Public Speaking, Orators

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• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Speech, Contentious

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• And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

  Walter Pater

  Religious, Art, Age

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Dedication, Miracle, Tourism

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• I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Japan, Ideas, People

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• Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.

  Charlotte Beers

  Perfection, Care, Speech

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• Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, People, Purpose

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (...) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.

  Adam Nicolson

  Children, Book, Long

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• What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

  Andre Dubus

  Art, Effort, Littles

  Andre Dubus (2011). “Meditations from a Movable Chair”, p.16, Vintage

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• You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Hands, Forever

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• It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not to live an impassioned life. It is unethical not to attain greatness. It is unethical to succumb to the fear of envy and the conspiracy of mediocrity. It is unethical not to self-bestow genius. It is unethical not to be the first monkey.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Greatness, Thinking, Self

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• Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

  Edna Ferber

  Memorable, Writing, Serenity

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Kindness, Flower

  'Love and Age' (1860)

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• During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles.

  Fabien Cousteau

  Miracle, Challenges, Challenging Times

  "People Protect What They Love" by Fabien Cousteau, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.

  Rod Stryker

  Soul, Needs, Thrive

  Rod Stryker (2011). “The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom”, p.132, Delacorte Press

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• Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Choices, Doe, Tasks

  "Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 28, 1846.

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• Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Flower, Paradox, Daisies

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Marriage, Struggle, Inspiration

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

  Max Ernst

  Artist, Development, Phases

  Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

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• Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.

  Laurence Overmire

  Art, Cry, Art Is

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• Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

  Anton Chekhov

  Children, Expression, Silence

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.

  John D. Caputo

  Way, Moments, Deconstruction

  John D. Caputo (1997). “The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion”, p.125, Indiana University Press

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