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Best Quotes About Passion (Top 100)
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde -
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost -
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac -
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
Hunter S. Thompson -
By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this —One of you is lying.
Dorothy Parker -
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson -
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.
Joss Whedon -
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).
Milan Kundera -
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes
Lord Byron -
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell -
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela -
Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.
Emily Giffin -
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Julia Child -
Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
Che Guevara -
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman -
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham -
Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
Drew Barrymore -
Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God
Amy Carmichael -
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman -
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D.H. Lawrence -
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be
Roald Dahl -
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James -
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
Maya Angelou -
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham -
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln -
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
Julie de Lespinasse -
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Harriet Tubman -
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.
Leonard Ravenhill -
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde -
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
Mae West -
To play without passion is inexcusable!
Ludwig van Beethoven -
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle -
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
Criss Jami -
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce -
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
David Hume -
Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.
Tove Jansson -
Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
Maya Angelou -
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
Mark Twain -
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
Margaret Mead -
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.
Democritus -
Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them to life as well.
Sayyid Qutb -
But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.
John Piper -
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
Audrey Hepburn -
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal -
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke -
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke -
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.
Jon Krakauer -
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
William Booth -
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
David Hume -
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.
Boris Pasternak -
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick -
No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.
Virginia Woolf -
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
Dorothy L. Sayers -
Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
Black Elk -
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Leonardo da Vinci -
The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.
Tony Dungy -
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine -
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
George Santayana -
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one's passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.
Norman Mailer -
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin -
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis -
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
Federico Fellini -
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mitch Albom -
He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
Louisa May Alcott -
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
Leonard Ravenhill -
I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.
Jacques Mayol -
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Billy Crystal -
Our true passions are selfish.
Stendhal -
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh -
once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
Leonardo da Vinci -
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln -
Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
David Hume -
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu -
Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If you have two, you aren't quite world class but you're close. If you have all three, then you don't need to die; you're already in heaven.
William Wharton -
My motto - sans limites.
Isadora Duncan -
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau -
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope -
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron -
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram âimpersonal and unattainableâthe Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.
Evelyn Underhill -
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
John Adams -
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen -
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
Anita Roddick -
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Richard Whately -
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer -
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke -
My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.
Eudora Welty -
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.
Britney Spears -
No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.
Harold Pinter -
Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
R. Scott Bakker -
I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.
Tony Hawk
Even More Passion Quotes
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles -
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bovee -
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry -
Life is a useless passion.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here.
Al Davis -
I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.
Al Davis -
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain -
What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.
John Boorman -
Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.
Tristan Tzara -
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal
Joni Mitchell -
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
Helen Hunt Jackson -
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott -
Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not pursued with the same heartfelt intensity as when first born. Slowly, subtly, a dream becomes elusive and ephemeral. People who've lost their own dreams become pessimists and cynics. They feel like the time and devotion spent on chasing their dreams were wasted. The emotional scars last forever.
Dean Karnazes -
The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.
Franz Boas -
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
Jean Dubuffet -
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
Janet Guthrie -
Our passion is our strength.
Billie Joe Armstrong -
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford -
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Horace -
What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.
Marina Tsvetaeva -
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
Elizabeth Hardwick -
As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns, a point where my strength will begin to wane. Until then, I'll just keep plodding onward, putting one foot in front of the other to the best of my ability. Smiling the entire time.
Dean Karnazes -
Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.
Henry Chester -
My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.
Les Dawson -
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
Joseph Conrad -
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.
Gustave Flaubert -
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
Jim Dine -
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Barry Williams -
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.
Celia Thaxter -
No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
Billie Jean King -
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West -
Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.
Alfred Bester -
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes -
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.
Roland Barthes -
Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit.... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways.... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down.....
Jon Krakauer -
Chase your passion, not your pension.
Denis Waitley -
You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
Aaliyah -
Social media spark a revelation that we, the people, have a voice, and through the democratization of content and ideas we can once again unite around common passions, inspire movements, and ignite change.
Brian Solis -
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
Gary Oldman -
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg -
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
Francis Ford Coppola -
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T -
I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
Kate Winslet -
I prefer love over sex.
Enrique Iglesias -
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
Ingrid Bergman -
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.
Aron Ralston -
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
H. Allen Smith -
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder -
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir -
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
Sarah Bernhardt -
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent, and troubled as your own experiences. They are as beset with suffering as yours. Literature is a kind of legitimate voyeurism through the keyhole of language where you really come to know other people's lives—their anguish, their loves, their passions. Often you discover that once you dive into those lives and get below the surface, the veneer, there is a real closeness.
Chaim Potok -
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.
Thomas Mann -
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.
Thomas Piketty -
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
Elvis Costello -
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all are gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cockcrow.
G. M. Trevelyan -
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.
Benjamin Franklin -
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
Agnes de Mille -
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie -
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Alphonse Karr -
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale -
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma -
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
Anna Julia Cooper -
There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
Oprah Winfrey -
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
Alfred Jarry -
If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.
Bobby Flay -
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
Lord Byron -
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
Francoise Sagan -
What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
Marina Tsvetaeva -
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.
Ed Viesturs -
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
Richard Selzer -
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo -
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
Alexander Herzen -
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen Hawking -
We are minor in everything but our passions.
Elizabeth Bowen -
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Thomas Hobbes -
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
Elle Macpherson -
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson -
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
Lord Hailsham -
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide -
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
Ninon de L'Enclos -
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Joseph Roux -
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Marianne Moore -
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
William James -
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de Mille -
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.
Harold Bloom -
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews -
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.
Charles Robert Maturin -
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.
Charles Perrault -
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein -
It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.
Penny Marshall -
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
Brooks Robinson -
I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.
Laurie R. King -
To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
Denis de Rougemont -
Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
William E. Simon -
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell -
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison -
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
John Maxwell -
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
Peter Ustinov -
Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.
Aron Ralston -
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger -
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead...
John Boorman -
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Sallust -
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.
Alan Sillitoe -
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.
Jacques Barzun -
Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.
Po Bronson -
It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness.
Lionel Shriver -
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke -
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
Roman Polanski -
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Joseph Butler -
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy -
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.
Ford Madox Ford -
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.
David Leavitt -
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson -
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
Barbra Streisand -
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell -
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams -
if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?
Lester Bangs -
I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.
Lorin Maazel -
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
Billy Barty -
What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.
William Wharton -
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
Aphra Behn -
I think whatever you do, if you are going to do well or even if you don't do it well, you have to have a passion for it, and I am passionate about it. I love it. I respect it and it gets me. I get off on acting.
Jack Lemmon -
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Margery Allingham -
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli -
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson -
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan -
I danced with passion to spite the music.
Gelsey Kirkland -
First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.
Rob Schneider -
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly -
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.
Bob Marshall -
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Abraham Maslow -
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.
Denis de Rougemont -
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope -
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Cicero -
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
Laurence Sterne -
Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.
Don Herold -
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton -
We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.
Carolyn Kizer -
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac -
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies -
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
Thomas Adams -
The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions.
Orson F. Whitney -
There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.
Brenda Ueland -
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Horace -
Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr -
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
John Churton Collins -
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
John Fowles -
The life and passion of a person leaves an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.
John O'Donohue -
Ask with urgency and passion.
Arthur Balfour -
Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.
Bertrand De Jouvenel -
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
Howard Thurman -
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light
Sallust -
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Harlan Ellison -
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de Montaigne -
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn -
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
Jules Michelet -
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman -
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.
F. L. Lucas -
The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.
Charles Horton Cooley -
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill -
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
Edmund Waller -
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
Matthew Arnold -
Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
Khalil Gibran -
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren Kierkegaard -
There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.
Amy Irving -
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
Bernard Berenson -
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers -
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
John Dryden -
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Aesop -
I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.
Willy Russell -
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds....
Jeremy Taylor -
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Anthony J. D'Angelo -
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey -
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
Booth Tarkington -
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
Boris Johnson -
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nestell Bovee -
This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.
Clive Davis -
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
Oscar Wilde -
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac -
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
William Hazlitt -
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.
Miguel de Unamuno -
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nevell Bovee -
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.
Arthur Symons -
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus -
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet -
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 -
The German passion for bureaucracy — for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist — is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .
Janet Flanner -
A master passion is the love of news.
George Crabbe -
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.
Gail Sheehy -
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes -
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash
Dr. Joyce Brothers -
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes -
Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
Dejan Stojanovic -
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Lord Chesterfield -
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph Addison -
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle -
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn -
With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
Donald Trump -
Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.
Daniel Goleman -
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
Soren Kierkegaard -
...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.
Havelock Ellis -
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
C. S. Lewis -
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Honore de Balzac -
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
Mario Batali -
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
John Milton -
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
Dorothy L. Sayers -
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt -
The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
Billy Connolly -
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin -
You call it madness, but I call it love.
Don Byas -
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. Lawrence -
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
Adrienne Rich -
Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
May Sarton -
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
John Wesley -
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid -
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
Buddha -
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life
Harvey Mackay