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Passion Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to…
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
- For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
- They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
- Passion is born deaf and dumb.
- However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and…
- All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
More Passion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe