Passion Being Dangerous Quotes & Sayings

Until that time, I had understood death as something entirely separate from and independent of life. The hand of death is about to take us, I had felt, but until the day it reaches out for us, it leaves us alone. This had seemed to me the simple, logical truth. Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.
That night Kizuki died, however, I lost the ability to see death (and life) in such simple terms. Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that. When it took the 17-year-old Kizuki that night in May, death took me as well. — Haruki Murakami

The sweeping message of the Bible is not a promise that those who believe and do good will not suffer. Instead the Bible is largely a book about people who refused to let go of their faith in the face of suffering. — Adam Hamilton

So unabashed as to make its recipient afraid - not of the girl but of a world that didn't abide such forthright joy. — Sarah McCoy

My demons love your demons like crazy — Diana T. Scott

I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people. — Charles Kuralt

I am a great wife. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe. — Martha Beck

Sorry. I forgot your lust for small talk. And how have you been in the fourteen hours since we last spoke, eight of which you were sleeping? — Jennifer Crusie

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious. — Edmund Burke

By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him. — Harry J. Anslinger

I can take criticisms but not compliments. — James Taylor

So this is creepy,' I say, motioning to the school with my non-key-shiv hand. — Julie Murphy

One does not know love until it arrives, and it's arrival will always surprise. — Tom McNeal

When your time spent making money is significantly greater than your time spent spending money, you will be amazed at how much you can save without even really thinking about it. — Sophia Amoruso

The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts. — Agnes Baker Pilgrim