Passion Quote by Joseph Conrad

“Here, what do you know of madness and despair?' 'There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp,…

— Joseph Conrad

“Life's uncontrollable, unpredictable, and a hell of a mess. Without fear, loss, and the wrong choice we made, we wouldn't be who we were.…

— J.C. Reed

“Life's lessons. There is no passion without sacrifice, no happiness without suffering, no success without failure, and no love without pain.”

— Daisy Gallagher

“There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars…

— Anne Frank

“I lead a bitter life, devoid of all external joy and in which I have nothing to keep me going but a sort of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“(...) nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness,…

— Thomas Mann

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

“What though the field be lost? All is not Lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And the courage never to…

— John Milton

“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been…

— George Eliot

“That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands that we risk. Our…

— Fredrik Backman

“In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance.”

— Guillermo del Toro

“I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky