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Passion |
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Quotations
 | Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 20 likes |
 | Faith is the highest passion in a man. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 8 likes |
| It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 7 likes |
 | I would rather die of passion than of boredom. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 7 likes |
 | 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, 1623-1662, French thinker 5 likes |
 | If we conquer our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 5 likes |
 | Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 5 likes |
 | What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 5 likes |
 | Man is a useless passion. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 4 likes |
 | Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 4 likes |
 | Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. — Joseph Roux, 1834-1905, French clergyman & poet 3 likes |
| Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 3 likes |
 | Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | It sometimes happens that the woman hides all the passion she feels for a man and the man pretends all the passion he does not have. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 3 likes |
 | Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 3 likes |
 | The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself. — Zadie Smith, 1975-, British writer 2 likes |
 | Without passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing. — Donald Trump, 1946-, President of the USA 2 likes |
 | Tenderness is the repose of passion. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 2 likes |
 | The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
 | There is scarcely any passion without struggle. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 2 likes |
 | A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 2 likes |
| Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 2 likes |
 | Only people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness. — Comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, main figure of the French Revolution 2 likes |
 | The Passions are like Fire and Water: good Servants, but bad Masters. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 2 likes |
 | Find what you love and let it kill you. |
 | Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. |
| If you want to give men a virtue, first give them a passion. |
| We use up in the passions all the stuff that was given to us for happiness. |
 | In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! |
 | No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart. |
 | Passion goes, Boredom remains. |
 | The supreme force of art and love is to force us to want to exhaust the inexhaustible in them. |
| Like love, art is not pleasure but passion. |
 | Everything that is not passion has a background of boredom. |
| Vanity is the dominant passion of man. |
 | When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. |
 | All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. |
| Love, says Plutarch, silences all other passions. He is the dictator before whom other passions disappear. |
 | Our true passions are selfish. |
 | There is always more passion in attack than in defense. |
 | Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. |
Personal Stories
 | A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller’s words, a tyrant... My tyrant is psychology. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | In my heart I had the thorn of a passion. I managed to take it off one day. I no longer feel my heart. |
Movie Quotes
 | Well, it's not the men in your life that counts. It's the life in your men. — from the film I’m No Angel (1933) 8 likes |
