PASSION QUOTES IX

quotations about passion

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


Passion is often hailed as the minimum requirement of any team. Its importance rarely understated, pundits, managers and players alike declare the desire, the drive, the hunger that their teams can and will display or, in the case of defeat, that they lacked.

ADAM HILSENRATH

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


When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Tags: D. H. Lawrence


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

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion

Tags: Jeanette Winterson


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

PHRYNE

attributed, Day's Collacon


I'd rather die of passion than of boredom!

EMILE ZOLA

The Ladies' Paradise

Tags: Emile Zola


Make your passion your paycheck.

ANONYMOUS

Tags: Anonymous quotes


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


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

ROBERT BROWNING

"Two in Campagna"

Tags: Robert Browning


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


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