The Passion Quotes

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen - this is the panacea to success.

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

A master passion is the love of news.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.

The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.

Judgement, not passion should prevail.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.

People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.