PASSION QUOTES V

quotations about passion


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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
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White Night


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

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Coningsby

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Passion is hugely contagious, while the ersatz variety leaves everyone switched off. It also leaves many a lad with a potato clock he doesn't want and can't palm off on his sister for love nor money.

ROWAN PELLING

"Giving science toys to boys is not the worst of it -- we all secretly try to control our kids with gifts", The Telegraph, December 11, 2016


Being passionate is often stated as an important attribute for employees; passion is associated with determination, motivation and having a high degree of self-control. Being emotional, however, has almost a negative mirror effect and is associated with irrationality, instability, ineptitude and a low degree of self-control.

SUNITA SAH

"Having a Meltdown at Work? Blame It on Your Passion", Science Daily, December 12, 2016


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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With men passion is all at the beginning and with women it is all along.

ANITA BROOKNER

The Paris Review, fall 1987

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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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The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede

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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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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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It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Passion should not, in theory, offer any advantage, but should merely level out the playing field and make sport the spectacle that it so often is; passion is simply an inherently natural part of sport, it is not as the media hype train would like to argue, a phenomenon that raises its head only at those particularly heated derbies and grudge matches.

ADAM HILSENRATH

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


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

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If love is a child, passion is a man.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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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


Everyone's got to be passionate about something, or they're not worth shit.

JOSEPH FINDER

Paranoia

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

ALLEN GINSBERG

journal, July 30, 1947


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


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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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