Passion Quotes

Fawn M. Brodie
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists

Oliver Bevan
Samuel taylor coleridge - all thoughts, all passions, all delights whatever...
G. m. trevelyan - anger is a momentary madness, so control your...
Leonardo da vinci, the notebooks - intellectual passion dries out sensuality....

Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.
La Rochefoucauld
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.
John Milton
Azel Backus
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Orson Welles
John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
Andr Gide
Bernard M. Baruch
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Georges Clemenceau
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Ursula K. LeGuin
Albert Schweitze
Dean Koontz
Abraham Lincoln
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".
There is only one universal passion fear.
George Bernard Shaw
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
H. Allen Smith
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Rufus Choate
The worst sin - Perhaps the only sin - Passion can commit, is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003
Never underestimate the power of passion.
Eve Sawye
George Santayana
Denis Diderot
Auguste Renoi
Honore de Balzac
Amanda Medinge
In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana
Dean Koontz