PASSION QUOTES VI

quotations about passion

If love is a child, passion is a man.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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The man who will not give up his passions, who clings to anger, unkindness, sensuality, pride, vanity self-indulgence, for the momentary pleasure which their gratification affords him is a spiritual miser; he cannot have any spiritual comforts.

JAMES ALLEN

Byways of Blessedness

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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


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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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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In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Eleanor Parke Custis, January 16, 1795

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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

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The worst of slaves are those that are constantly serving their passions.

DIOGENES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Passion is oxygen of the soul.

BILL BUTLER

attributed, Gauraw, August 29, 2013


The intensity of passion often defies logic. Gripped by its urgency, you feel the heat in your bones. It's an intoxicating drive that can only be appeased with action.

SAMUEL MPAMUGO

"Raw passion can harm go-getters", The Kenya Star, November 19, 2016


The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man

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There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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What makes you mad? What makes you sad? What makes you glad? There lies your passion.

ANONYMOUS


Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

JOHN FOWLES

The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas

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Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

ROBERT SOUTH

Twelve Sermons


What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.

JOHN BOORMAN

Projections


Passion is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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We have no more control over the duration of our passions than we do over the duration of our life.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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We may refute errors, but never passions.

ALEXANDRE RUDOLPHE VINET

Outlines of Theology


A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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