passion quotes

“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”

“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ”

“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”

“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ”

“There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.”

“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. ”

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”

“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”

“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ”

“The dew of compassion is a tear.”

“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. ”

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms. ”

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”

“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”

“All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”

“If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.”

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”

“Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. ”

“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”

“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”

“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.”

“When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.”

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

“The strongest passion is fear.”

“I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.”

“Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have? ”

“Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. ”

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. ”