Christina Stead Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.

  Christina Stead

  Love, Dream, Art

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.83, The Miegunyah Press

• The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

  Christina Stead

  Struggle, Passion, Intelligent

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

• Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

  Christina Stead

  Passion, Optimistic, Creation

• Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

  Christina Stead

  Money, Passion, Jealous

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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