Quotes about passion

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

Adams, Thomas on passion   

"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on passion
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on passion
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"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless."

Balzac, Honore De on passion   

"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."

Barthes, Roland on passion
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"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."

Boorman, John on passion
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"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on passion
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"Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on passion
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"I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it."

Brett, George on passion   

"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."

Brown, Rita Mae on passion   

"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."

Browne, Sir Thomas on passion
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"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

Burns, George on passion
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"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"

Byron, Lord on passion
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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."

Campbell, Joseph on passion
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"All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on passion
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"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."

Cicero, Marcus T. on passion   

"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."

Davis, Bette on passion   

"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."

Diderot, Denis on passion
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"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."

Diderot, Denis on passion
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"Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite."

Eliot, George on passion   

"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on passion
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"Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions."

Erasmus, Desiderius on passion   

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

Fellini, Frederico on passion
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"It is the passions that do and undo everything."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on passion
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Fuller, Thomas on passion
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"Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on passion
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"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on passion   

"It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them."

Goldsmith, Oliver on passion   

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"We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."

Hegel, Georg on passion
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"He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act."

Helvetius, Claude A. on passion
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"Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act."

Helvetius, Claude A. on passion   

"You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas."

Herzen, Alexander on passion
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"There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive."

Hoffer, Eric on passion
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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on passion   

"You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed."

Irving, John on passion
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"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

Jung, Carl on passion
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"What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion."

Kierkegaard, Søren on passion
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"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies."

Krutch, Joseph Wood on passion   

"In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on passion
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