Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. — Dante Alighieri
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state… — Libba Bray
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions… — Cornel West
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting… — Soren Kierkegaard
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic… — Gustave Flaubert
He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard. — Louisa May Alcott
Our passions are ourselves. — Anatole France
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of… — Thomas Hardy
...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the… — Thomas Hardy
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams
Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even… — C.S. Lewis
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we… — Victor Hugo
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest… — Marc Bekoff
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant… — Winston Churchill
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt… — Milan Kundera
Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you. — Randy Pausch
Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited… — Oliver Sacks
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their… — C.S. Lewis
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of… — Pythagoras
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. — Jane Austen
Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come… — Pablo Neruda
We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most.… — Susan Fletcher
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the… — Oscar Wilde
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. — Oscar Wilde

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