Passion Quotes

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

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.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

Passion and love for a brand and its consumers sustain us. For how can we ever devote our continued highest energy to something if we don't believe in it passionately.

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust.

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.

Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

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.

Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

Your passion is your qualification. It's your leading qualification.

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

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

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

Most of us could stop doing something that's hindering our passion for Jesus and effectiveness in following him.

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

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