Passions Quotes

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

Love is only one of many passions.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Passions are the gales of life.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.