PASSION QUOTES VI

quotations about passion

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Passion should not, in theory, offer any advantage, but should merely level out the playing field and make sport the spectacle that it so often is; passion is simply an inherently natural part of sport, it is not as the media hype train would like to argue, a phenomenon that raises its head only at those particularly heated derbies and grudge matches.

ADAM HILSENRATH

"The fundamentals of sporting passion", Cherwell Online, December 4, 2016


For the passions of men, which asunder are moderate, as the heat of one brand, in assembly are like many brands that enflame one another, (especially when they blow one another with orations) to the setting of the commonwealth on fire, under pretense of counseling it.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

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The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed.

T. S. ELIOT

The Waste Land

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The intensity of passion often defies logic. Gripped by its urgency, you feel the heat in your bones. It's an intoxicating drive that can only be appeased with action.

SAMUEL MPAMUGO

"Raw passion can harm go-getters", The Kenya Star, November 19, 2016


Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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It is a remarkable property of human nature, that any emotion, which attends a passion, is easily converted into it, though in their natures they be originally different from, and even contrary to each other. It is true; in order to make a perfect union among passions, there is always required a double relation of impressions and ideas; nor is one relation sufficient for that purpose. But though this be confirmed by undoubted experience, we must understand it with its proper limitations, and must regard the double relation, as requisite only to make one passion produce another. When two passions are already produced by their separate causes, and are both present in the mind, they readily mingle and unite, though they have but one relation, and sometimes without any. The predominant passion swallows up the inferior, and converts it into itself. The spirits, when once excited, easily receive a change in their direction; and it is natural to imagine this change will come from the prevailing affection. The connexion is in many respects closer betwixt any two passions, than betwixt any passion and indifference.

DAVID HUME

"Of the Causes of the Violent Passions", A Treatise of Human Nature

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

ALLEN GINSBERG

journal, July 30, 1947


Who does not believe his first passion eternal?

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The Virginians

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While the happiest retirees have a passion, they leave enough room in their lives for the other spokes of the wheel.

LARRY JACOBSON

"The happiest retirees have learned this lesson", Market Watch, November 23, 2016


Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.... It more than anything deprives us of the use of our judgment; for it raises a dust very hard to see through. Like wine, whose lees fly by being jogg'd, it is too muddy to drink.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Being passionate is often stated as an important attribute for employees; passion is associated with determination, motivation and having a high degree of self-control. Being emotional, however, has almost a negative mirror effect and is associated with irrationality, instability, ineptitude and a low degree of self-control.

SUNITA SAH

"Having a Meltdown at Work? Blame It on Your Passion", Science Daily, December 12, 2016


If love is a child, passion is a man.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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Passion costs me too much to bestow it upon every trifle.

THOMAS ADAM

Private Thoughts on Religion


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

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If passion is a drug, your startup should be OD'ing on it all the time! If there's something you aren't passionate about, it's really hard to come to work, feel motivated, and full of energy. So, passion is almost an underlying requirement to form great culture as people driven by passion are usually able to do well even in new domains and uncharted territories.

VINOD MUTHUKRISHNAN

"Culture begets success. Or does it?", Your Story, December 10, 2016


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.

JOHN BOORMAN

Projections


The man who will not give up his passions, who clings to anger, unkindness, sensuality, pride, vanity self-indulgence, for the momentary pleasure which their gratification affords him is a spiritual miser; he cannot have any spiritual comforts.

JAMES ALLEN

Byways of Blessedness

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Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

WILLIAM PENN

Fruits of Solitude

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

WALTER RALEIGH

The Silent Lover

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