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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
-George Eliot
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
-Desiderius Erasmus
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
-Federico Fellini
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
-Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
-Thomas Fuller
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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
-Johann von Goethe
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
-Johann von Goethe
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
-Claude A. Helvetius
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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.
-Claude A. Helvetius
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
-Alexander Herzen
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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
-Eric Hoffer
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The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
-Eric Hoffer
The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
-John Irving
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
-Joseph Wood Krutch
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.
-Spike Lee
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
-George Meredith
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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
-Henry Miller
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Books about Passion
