quotations about passion
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
JOHN WESLEY
letter to Joseph Benson, October 5, 1770
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you directly to your purpose.
ANONYMOUS
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 is never bad. It just needs to be channeled correctly.
ROB MORRISON
"Has your passion for your brand become a distraction?", Marketing Mag, November 23, 2016
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
JULIE-JEANNE-ELIONORE DE LESPINASSE
letter, 1774
Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI
House of Leaves
Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Passion
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Les Célibataires
Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.
ROBERT BROWNING
"Two in Campagna"
Passion maketh man a beast.
L. E. DUPIN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS
The Art of Writing