Passion Quotes

Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.

Blessing Irish

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

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

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffe

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

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.

John Milton

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

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of Ten Best.

H. Allen Smith

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Paul Eldridge

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffe

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.

Miguel de Cervantes

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.

Edmund Burke

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore De Balzac

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles, 1966

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

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

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

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Henry Ward Beeche

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell

He who feels no compassion will become insane.

Hasidic Saying

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Joseph Conrad

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

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Ivan Pavlov

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles