quotations about passion
The worst of slaves are those that are constantly serving their passions.
DIOGENES
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attributed, Day's Collacon
Passion doth sometimes whirl the torch of Love, lest into Friendship fade the waning flame.
RICHARD GARNETT
De Flagello Myrtes
Men utter a vast amount of slander against their physical nature, and attempt to repair deficient virtue by maiming their animal passions. These are to be trained, guided, restrained, but never crucified or exterminated, for they are the soil in which we were planted.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Everyone's got to be passionate about something, or they're not worth shit.
JOSEPH FINDER
Paranoia
Between two beings susceptible of love, the duration of passion is in proportion to the original resistance of the woman, or to the obstacles which the accidents of social life put in the way of your happiness.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
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
In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Eleanor Parke Custis, January 16, 1795
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
JOHN FOWLES
The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
As a storm conceals the glories of the sun and defaces the beauty of the landscape, even so do maddening passions deform the soul, bearing along with their impetuous waves both pestilence and death.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Passion is an all-important part of a romantic relationship. A marriage without passion can be a very dull, uninteresting union. It, however, is just one part of a happy marriage. All the other virtues should be looked for in a long-term partnership -- unselfishness, generosity, loyalty, honesty, self-control and don't forget industry.
NINA GILFERT
"The topic today is love", Daily Commercial, November 20, 2016
We may refute errors, but never passions.
ALEXANDRE RUDOLPHE VINET
Outlines of Theology
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
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
What makes you mad? What makes you sad? What makes you glad? There lies your passion.
ANONYMOUS
The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Passion is oxygen of the soul.
BILL BUTLER
attributed, Gauraw, August 29, 2013
We have no more control over the duration of our passions than we do over the duration of our life.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims