Passions Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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

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.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

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.

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.