Commitment Quote by Arthur Miller

Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.

— Frederick Lenz

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

— Poul Anderson

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge…

— Francis Bacon

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

— Arsene Wenger

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind,…

— Adam Smith

“Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.”

— Aldous Huxley

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

— William Penn

“Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making fine messes…

— Siri Hustvedt

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion…

— John Boorman

“What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not…

— Hermann Hesse