Passions Quotes

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Passions are the gales of life.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Our true passions are selfish.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

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

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

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.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.