Blasphemy Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among…

— Herman Melville

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

— George Sand

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

— Joni Mitchell

Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

— Anonymous

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion…

— John Boorman

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

— Jane Hirshfield