Passion Quotes
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.Elizabeth Hardwick
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.La Rochefoucauld
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.Clive Staples Lewis
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.Chuang - Tzu, On Leveling All Things
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.Joseph Addison
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.Abraham Lincoln
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.Alexander Pope
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.La Rochefoucauld
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.Simone Weil
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.Boris Pasternak
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.Marquis de Sade
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
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.Alexander Hamilton
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.Georges Clemenceau
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.Jean de La Fontaine
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.Claude A. Helvetius
When the habitually even - Tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.Henry Ward Beeche
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.William Wharton
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.Paul Eldridge
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".
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.William Butler Yeats
There is only one universal passion fear.George Bernard Shaw
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.Seneca
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.Pythagoras
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.The Dalai Lama
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
National Health Insurance: The compassion of the IRS The efficiency of the Postal Service All at Pentagon prices!!!!Seen on a bumper sticke
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.Abraham Joshua Heschel
