Passion Quote by Ann Radcliffe

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and…

— Marcel Proust

“In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance.”

— Guillermo del Toro

“Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fervor and agony; it is temper and zeal.”

— Rebecca Ross

“No matter how fierce was the passion that gripped him, the fact is he was paralyzed, transfixed by the contemplation of his own past.…

— Natsume Sōseki

“...if one civilized man were doomed to pass a dozen years amid a race of intractable savages, unless he had power to improve them,…

— Anne Brontë

“I simply needed to excavate passion lost by being resilient, resolving the blockages, and healing. As soon as I did, the passion, and joy,…

— Susan C. Young

“There is no passion without pain..”

— Rebecca Ross

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A…

— Herman Melville

“Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die and suffer…

— Blaise Pascal

“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“Passion ought to be tempered with restraint.”

— Maya Rodale