Quotes
Quotes about Passion
I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
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.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
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 it's spark.
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.
Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
