"Passionateness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been thinking about myself—what a strange, wayward, incomprehensible being I am, and how completely misunderstood by almost everybody. Uniting excessive pride with excessive sensitiveness, the greatest ardor and passionateness of emotion with an irresolute will, a disposition to distrust, in so far only as the affection of others for me is concerned, with the extreme of confidence and credulity in everything else—an incapability of expressing, except occasionally as it were ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss
... for a moment, and as he steadfastly looked into the mate's malignant eye and .. perceived the stacks of powder-casks heaped up in him and the slow-match silently burning along towards them; as he instinctively saw all this, that strange forbearance and unwillingness to stir up the deeper passionateness in any already ireful being —a repugnance most felt, when felt at all, by really valiant men even when aggrieved —this nameless phantom feeling, gentlemen, stole over Steelkilt. Therefore, in his ordinary tone, ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... other of the easily recognizable earmarks of his art, distinguishes his work from Debussy's. The other man has a greater sensuousness, completeness, inventiveness perhaps. But Ravel is full of a lyricism, a piercingness, a passionateness, that much of the music of Debussy successive to "Pelleas" wants. We understand Ravel's music, in the famous phrase of Beethoven, as speech "vom ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld
... way, the most conspicuous great representative in English poetry since Chaucer of the spirit of 'Art for Art's sake.' Keats was born in London in 1795, the first son of a livery-stable keeper. Romantic emotion and passionateness were among his chief traits from the start; but he was equally distinguished by a generous spirit, physical vigor (though he was very short in build), and courage. His younger brothers he loved intensely and fought fiercely. ...
— A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher
... with a passionateness which was quite out of keeping with her mask-like expression. It was like finding a pearl in an oyster, hearing her at the piano. She played certain airs from Fra Diavolo so skilfully that she seemed to be letting bandits into the house; and when she saw that ...
— Children of the Desert • Louis Dodge |
