PASSION QUOTES IV
quotations about passion
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
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The Virginians
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If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Timoleon
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.... If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
ROALD DAHL
My Uncle Oswald
Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.
OVID
Metamorphoses
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
JOHN DRYDEN
St. Cecilia's Day
The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Great passions are hopeless diseases. That which could cure them is the first thing to make them really dangerous.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Many people in reasoning on the passions make a continual appeal to common sense. But passion is without common sense, and we must frequently discard the one in speaking of the other.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Passion makes a burlesque of the features.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, March 5, 1711
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping ... waiting ... and though unwanted ... unbidden ... it will stir ... open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us ... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments ... the joy of love ... the clarity of hatred ... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd truly be dead.
ANGELUS
"Passion", Buffy the Vampire Slayer
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
Passion costs me too much to bestow it upon every trifle.
THOMAS ADAM
Private Thoughts on Religion
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
PAUL NEWMAN
attributed, Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures
Give me that man
That is not passion's slave.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
We condemn generally the passions of others by other passions either like or unlike.
PASQUIER QUESNEL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Human passion is a heavy working charge of electricity, which runs safely and profitably through the cable reason; but, if the cable is broken, the current becomes dangerous.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
ALEXANDER POPE
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
Passion is hugely contagious, while the ersatz variety leaves everyone switched off. It also leaves many a lad with a potato clock he doesn't want and can't palm off on his sister for love nor money.
ROWAN PELLING
"Giving science toys to boys is not the worst of it -- we all secretly try to control our kids with gifts", The Telegraph, December 11, 2016
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.
JIM BUTCHER
White Night