Inspirational quotes Quote by Vimalakurti

“I love the passions. They create such sensation! Anger, grief, fear, love, hate, excitement. The fierce emotions make one feel. Such are a gift,…

— Nikki Sex

“So soon as passion goes beyond instinct and becomes truly itself, it tends to self self-description, either in order to justify or intensify its…

— Denis de Rougemont

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

— Mikhail Lermontov

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking.

— Martha Roth

“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

“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 passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and…

— Anonymous