Fire Quote by Marquis de Sade

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Passions change and morph over time as one comes to know and understand oneself more deeply. As you follow your passions, you will find…

— Janet, Bray Attwood

Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture…

— Henri Matisse

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

— Rene Descartes

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

— Andrew Michael Ramsay

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Keep your passions burning brightly.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible…

— Voltaire

“Our purpose and passions often seem to fade into the background, and we begin to deny our very nature. You know, the things in…

— Dana Malstaff

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise,…

— Walter Pater

Passions are the gales of life.

— Alexander Pope