Passion Quotes

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Life is a useless passion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Patience is passion tamed.

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

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.

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.

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Our passion is our strength.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

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.

Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.

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.

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.

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

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.

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.

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.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

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.

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.

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.....

Chase your passion, not your pension.

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.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

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.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

I prefer love over sex.

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

...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.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

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.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

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.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

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.

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.

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.

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

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.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

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.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

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.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

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.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

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.

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.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

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.

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

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.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

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.

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.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

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.

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...

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

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.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

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.

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.

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

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.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

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.

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?

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

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.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

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.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

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.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.

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

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

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.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

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.

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.

Ask with urgency and passion.

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.

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.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

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

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

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.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

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.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

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.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

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....

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.

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

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.

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.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

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

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

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.

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

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

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

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.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

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.

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.

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.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

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.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

A master passion is the love of news.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

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

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

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.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

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.

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

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

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 . . .

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.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

...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.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.