Passion Quote by Oscar Wilde

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

— Oscar Wilde

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Desire made fools of us all, did it not? What was more controlling than unconsummated desire? What but wanting sent men on fatal quests…

— Megan Chance

“There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.

— Anonymous

“This is theory’s acute dilemma: that desire expresses itself most fully where only those absorbed in its delights and torments are present, that it…

— Joan Cocks

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence…

— John Quincy Adams

It was apparent that all of mankind is actually motivated by inner love, but has simply become unaware; most people live their lives as…

— David Hawkins

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I…

— Thomas Jefferson

“And so he had begun by vivisecting himself, as he had ended by vivisecting others. Human life—that appeared to him the one thing worth…

— Oscar Wilde

“Even though still young, I did not know what it was to experience the clear-cut feeling of platonic love. Was this a misfortune? But…

— Yukio Mishima