Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength. — Marquis de Sade
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break… — John Adams
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty… — Wallace Stevens
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. — Tom Brokaw
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses...… — Alfred Bester
In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for… — Gustave Flaubert
I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the… — Carrie Fisher
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. — Bertrand Russell
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and… — Charles Baudelaire
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… — Erich Fromm
Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their… — Octavio Paz
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have… — Michael Ende
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. — Dorothy L. Sayers
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with… — Oscar Wilde
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.… — Oscar Wilde
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a… — Thomas Nagel
A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have… — Rachilde
My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories,… — Patricia Highsmith
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only… — Nikolai Gogol
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. — Sherwood Smith
Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to… — William Wilberforce

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