PASSION QUOTES IX

quotations about passion

A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1749

Tags: Benjamin Franklin


Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion

Tags: Jeanette Winterson


Everyone is running at lightning speed in the race for survival. Most of them live and work to make ends meet. The price of following a passion could be paid through their stomach. And if they fail, the fall is too steep in a dark, unknown trough with no supporting social infrastructure.

AASHI SANGHVI

"Following Your Passion: A Calling For The West, A Caution For The East", Huffington Post, February 12, 2016


Make your passion your paycheck.

ANONYMOUS

Tags: Anonymous quotes


I'd rather die of passion than of boredom!

EMILE ZOLA

The Ladies' Paradise

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Passion is never bad. It just needs to be channeled correctly.

ROB MORRISON

"Has your passion for your brand become a distraction?", Marketing Mag, November 23, 2016


A man without passion is a statue, not a man.

PHRYNE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Passion maketh man a beast.

L. E. DUPIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

JULIE-JEANNE-ELIONORE DE LESPINASSE

letter, 1774


Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI

House of Leaves


Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.

ROBERT BROWNING

"Two in Campagna"

Tags: Robert Browning


For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Les Célibataires

Tags: Honore de Balzac


Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

The Art of Writing

Tags: André Maurois