Passion Quote by Cyril Connolly Download Open image ““We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion.”” — Cyril Connolly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Passion
“For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Finally, when rising from meditative equipoise, with the awareness that all phenomena are illusionlike, one extensively engages in the accumulation of merit.” — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“...today, I’m writing about the extraordinary; those ‘moments’ in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the time, really… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you.” — steven redhead Copy Share Image
“There is no real pleasure in illusion & deception.The only match for the beautyful Fortune is the Truth.” — Julie Spring Copy Share Image
“Let your passion in life be as conspicuous as the devilish grin on your face.” — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
“So soon as passion goes beyond instinct and becomes truly itself, it tends to self self-description, either in order to justify or intensify its… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things… — C JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Without passion and satisfaction, there is nothing to make happiness last.” — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
Football is my passion, and who knows where I will play in the future - you cannot foresee that. — Edinson Cavani Copy Share Image
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image