Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling… — Erich Fromm
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.… — Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think… — Oscar Wilde
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve… — Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but… — Milan Kundera
Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines. — Po Bronson
Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his… — Sarah Monette
It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next… — Melina Marchetta
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object… — Marquis de Sade
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of… — Oscar Wilde
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose… — Carl Jung
Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat… — Christopher McDougall
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of… — Thomas Merton
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world… — Alexandre Dumas
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look… — Oscar Wilde
Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous. — Terry McMillan
There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion,… — Ted Dekker
... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions… — Orson Scott Card
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege… — Iris Murdoch
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.… — Oscar Wilde
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless, dark,… — Yukio Mishima

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