PASSION QUOTES V

quotations about passion

Many people in reasoning on the passions make a continual appeal to common sense. But passion is without common sense, and we must frequently discard the one in speaking of the other.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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Passion is oxygen of the soul.

BILL BUTLER

attributed, Gauraw, August 29, 2013


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


Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

PAUL NEWMAN

attributed, Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures

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When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


Those who have had great passions often find all their lives made miserable in being cured of them.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede

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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

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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The Virginians

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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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Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

JIM BUTCHER

White Night


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

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

THOMAS ADAM

Private Thoughts on Religion


Give me to drink the poison of thy breast--
Dark cruel wine from grapes of passion pressed--
Till I am drunk beyond delirium's dream
In that dim utter deep where men may rest.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love

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The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Curse of Lono

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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Coningsby

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

ROMAN POLANSKI

Independent on Sunday, May 12, 1991


Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under the appearance of piety and honor, they are always to be seen through these veils.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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We condemn generally the passions of others by other passions either like or unlike.

PASQUIER QUESNEL

attributed, Day's Collacon


There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

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