Passion Quotes

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

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.

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

We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

Success begins to chase us when we begin chasing our passions.

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.

I think passion gives you the energy to do what is right, and discipline makes sure you do what is right. So I look at them as kind of cousins maybe.

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

If you have the passion to do something, work hard, stay honest and nothing can stop you to accomplish it.

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

Life is given us as a passion.

You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

I was raised to pursue my passions and pursue the things that I love, and to just live life to the fullest.

When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.

I am going to devour you, Magdelegna,” he promised her, the darkness of his cravings coming to bear on her fully at last. “You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.

When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

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

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.