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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, The Virginians
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
Passion ungoverned by Reason is Madness.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Great passions are hopeless diseases. That which could cure them is the first thing to make them really dangerous.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
A man or a woman without passions is like a windmill in a calm--motionless, ghastly, useless.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
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
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
Passion makes a burlesque of the features.
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping...waiting...and though unwanted...unbidden...it will stir...open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us...guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments ... the joy of love...the clarity of hatred...and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd truly be dead.
ANGELUS, "Passion," Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
- 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
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
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.... It more than anything deprives us of the use of our judgment; for it raises a dust very hard to see through. Like wine, whose lees fly by being jogg'd, it is too muddy to drink.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
When the mind is clouded with passions, it is odds but a man misses his way.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
ANAIS NIN, diary, Feb. 1932
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
Understanding should go first and find out the way, then passion should be as wings to carry us on in it.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
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