No Passion Quotes

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.

Passions are the gales of life.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.

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

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

Spirit is passionate; without passion no one can be truly spiritual.

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself.

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

If you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway.

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

Everyone has a life purpose, and the key to your life purpose is following your passion, which consumes a lot of time.