Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions — Stephen Covey
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,… — William Wordsworth
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,… — Chaim Potok
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. — Leo Tolstoy
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to… — David Hume
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause — David Hume
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may… — Charlotte Bronte
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance… — John Green
If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where… — J. Michael Straczynski
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art… — Marcel Proust
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life… — Haruki Murakami
God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the… — Max Lucado
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,… — Baroness Orczy
From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions,… — Albert Camus
I am going to devour you, Magdelegna,” he promised her, the darkness of his cravings coming to bear on her fully at last. “You wanted… — Jacquelyn Frank
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down,… — Benjamin Franklin
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real… — Diane Ackerman
Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know… — Albert Camus
There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion,… — Philip Pullman
Love is the most selfish of all the passions. — Alexandre Dumas
My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the… — Jon Krakauer
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the… — Marquis de Sade
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I… — Charles Dickens

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