Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

In music the passions enjoy themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than… — Florence Nightingale
I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me… — Jane Pauley
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. — Alexander Pope
Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in… — Natalie Portman
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. — Marcel Proust
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't… — Daniel Radcliffe
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure… — Herbert Read
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. — Samuel Richardson
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of… — Bertrand Russell
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves,… — David O. Russell
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and… — Marquis de Sade
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice,… — Marquis de Sade
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. — Marquis de Sade
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the… — Carl Sandburg
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. — George Santayana

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