Quotes about passion
passion compassion sorrow
Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow. Noah Webster
passion way excess
She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. Jodi Picoult
passion color world
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color. Mary Cassatt
passion nervous crime
Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength. Marquis de Sade
passion competition doubt
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
passion mad pity
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
passion lust demand
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
passion glasses fire
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
passion voice giving
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
passion jail addiction
There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music. Nikki Sixx
passion theatre
I have such a passion for theatre. Nicole Trunfio
passion blood music-is
Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work. Nicole Scherzinger
passion kissing agreement
Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long conversation, a parenthetical remark made in order to assure each other of a deeply felt agreement, a mutual offer of companionship, which is so much more rare than sexual passion or even love. Nicole Krauss
passion thinking tunnels
When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it. Nicola Peltz
passion issues people
I’d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person. Because if you lack passion, your soul is diminishing by the second. You have to be passionate about something. Call it obsessed or whatever you want, but be obsessed about something. Obsessed people care. I’m passionate about so many things, it becomes an issue at certain points, but at least you have the ability to feel that much about something. Matt Cohen
passionate projects mediums
I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium. Matt Bomer
passion ordinary common
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. Mary McCarthy
passion facts novelists
The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.
passion men blessing
Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive. Marvin J. Ashton
passion done
It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that. Nicholas Sparks
passion space matter
It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.
passion comfort impossible
Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.
passion men instinct
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. Muhammad Iqbal
passion ideas stage
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage. Mikhail Lermontov
passion people looks
I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well. Mikhail Bulgakov
passion men squares
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion. Oscar Wilde
passion soul levels
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
passion sacrifice thinking
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.
passion secret age-and-youth
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
passion harm divorced
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion. Lucretius
passionate mahler world
To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it, he heard it, and he expressed it. He was a kaleidoscopic, Olympian figure. Lorin Maazel
passionate
I meditate and I'm passionate about it. Mehmet Oz
passion suffering moderates
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. Michel de Montaigne