Passions Quotes

943 Passions quotes by 610 unique authors

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully… — Haruki Murakami
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes? — Agatha Christie
It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or… — Haruki Murakami
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings.… — William Blake
Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Hate and love are reciprocal passions. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty Was bitter… — Anna Akhmatova
It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our… — Ravi Zacharias
We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the… — John M. Gottman
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the… — Oscar Wilde
We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to… — Federico Fellini
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the… — Baruch Spinoza
Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a… — Tristan Tzara
The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul. — Khalil Gibran
It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. — P.G. Wodehouse
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It… — Thomas Mann
That’s the very reason why love is eternal,’ concluded João Fulgêncio, ‘because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains. — Jorge Amado
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again. — Bernhard Schlink
Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking… — George R. R. Martin
We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere… — Terri Windling
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing… — Amy Chua
Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated. — William H. Gass
Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of… — Edgar Allan Poe
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if… — William Shakespeare

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