How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams Copy Share Image
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty,… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
“Such was the complexity of things. For what happened to her, especially staying with the Ramsays, was to be made to feel… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent… — Victor Del Arbol Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
