Passion Quote by Oscar Wilde

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to…

— Oscar Wilde

“A fit of passionate sobbing choked her. She crouched on the floor like a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful eyes, looked…

— Oscar Wilde

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

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in…

— George Eliot

“An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable…

— Rachilde

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

— Aristotle

Passions are the gales of life.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage. They are the property of youth, and anyone who expects to feel their thrill throughout his…

— Lermontov, Mikhail

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

— Mikhail Lermontov