„I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained hispassion. He must have looked like anearthquake walking down the street.“

— Charles Bukowski

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„“It was an old passion,” he said. “I haven’t touched a violin for months. I didn’t know what that would be like.”“What is it like?” she asked.He began to walk so that she almost missed his answer. “An amputation,” he whispered.“
— Octavia E. Butler
„He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor— not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.“
— Paul of Tarsus
„Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.“
— Fernando Pessoa