quotations about passion
Strong passions work wonders when there is a greater strength of reason to curb them.
ABRAHAM TUCKER
An Abridgment of The Light of Nature Pursued
People love what other people are passionate about.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
La La Land
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Les Célibataires
Passion is often hailed as the minimum requirement of any team. Its importance rarely understated, pundits, managers and players alike declare the desire, the drive, the hunger that their teams can and will display or, in the case of defeat, that they lacked.
ADAM HILSENRATH
"The fundamentals of sporting passion", Cherwell Online, December 4, 2016
A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1749
Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Passion
Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI
House of Leaves
I'd rather die of passion than of boredom!
EMILE ZOLA
The Ladies' Paradise
Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.
ROBERT BROWNING
"Two in Campagna"
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
JULIE-JEANNE-ELIONORE DE LESPINASSE
letter, 1774
Passion is never bad. It just needs to be channeled correctly.
ROB MORRISON
"Has your passion for your brand become a distraction?", Marketing Mag, November 23, 2016
Passion maketh man a beast.
L. E. DUPIN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS
The Art of Writing