Passion for Living Quotes

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.

Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.

What we lack is intensity of life.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

One must desire something to be alive.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

I have a lust for life.

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!