Action Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

— Nikolai Gogol

“Regrets are passions that aren't pursued.”

— Mel Walsh

The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.

— Vincent de Paul

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference. But just because my own passions are not of that…

— Anatole France

I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my…

— Louisa May Alcott

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

— George Galloway

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure and pain,…

— Emil Cioran

There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory…

— Marcel Proust