Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if…

I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written…

— James Elroy Flecker

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures…

— Tadeusz Borowski

For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of…

— Alan Sillitoe

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it…

— Rajneesh

... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases…

— Alfred Tarski

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the…

— Richard Rodriguez

...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of…

— John Muir

“Listen! The court jester's cap and bells. The King is coming!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss…

— George S. Patton

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at…

— John James Audubon

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,…

— Edward Young