PASSION QUOTES II

quotations about passion

Passion quote

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

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Earthly passion is as the song of the nightingale, which charms chiefly at night, and ceases after no long time.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.

LAURA ESQUIVEL

Swift as Desire

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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. They should be to spiritual sentiments what the hot-bed is to early flowers.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.

GEORGE CHAPMAN

Monsieur D'Olive

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It is madness to think that we can fix an end to passions which we cannot control at their beginning.

SENECA

attributed, The Reign of the Stoics

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Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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The fugitive, brief, though intense satisfactions that come to the nerves through the appetite and passions are not the foundations of joy in this world: they come with a moment's flash, and are disastrous in their flight.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix. When the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary

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The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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A passionate man or woman makes his or her way through the world at a great disadvantage compared to persons of a cool temperament. The cool hammer, it is well known, can mould the heated iron to its own will. Passion is reason conquered, and sense run mad. Passion leads its victims into misery, ruin, woes and troubles without end, and always, sometime or other, brings its own punishment. The oftener it is given way to the harder it becomes to control, causing misery to him or her who gives way to it and all about them, making their home like a volcano that may burst forth at any hour, scorching, blasting and burning all within its reach, and leaving a bleak desert in the heart or hearts they ought to warm, cherish and nourish. Passionate persons can never be happy themselves or make a happy home for others, therefore let young persons early strive to conquer passion, and never let it get the better of them.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On Passion", Short Essays


Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

DONALD TRUMP

attributed, Social Networking for Authors: Untapped Possibilities for Wealth

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Passion ungoverned by Reason is Madness.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

YVES SAINT-LAURENT

attributed, Glam Notes: 101 Ways to Feel Fabulous


Passion is terrifying, it can rock you, change you, bring your head under, as when a wind rises from the bottom of the sea, and you're out there in the craft of your mortality, alone.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Know you not,
The fire, that mounts the liquor till it run o'er,
In seeming to augment it, wastes it? Be advis'd:
I say again, there is no English soul
More stronger to direct you than yourself;
If with the sap of reason you would quench,
Or but allay, the fire of passion.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VIII

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Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères

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Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!

FRANCIS BEAUMONT & JOHN FLETCHER

The Nice Valour

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I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, February 23, 2010

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