Quotes About Passions

Besides gardening, I love to sketch and to sing.

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he faces his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. And at once there wells up from the depths of his soul boredom, gloom, depression, chagrin, resentment, despair.

Civil war in man between reason and passions. If there were only reason without passions. If there were only passions without reason. But since he has both he cannot be free from war, for he can only be at peace with the one if he is at war with the other.

There is internal war in man between reason and the passions. If he had only reason without passions ... If he had only passions without reason ... But having both, he cannot be without strife, being unable to be at peace with the one without being at war with the other. Thus he is always divided against, and opposed to himself.

This internal war of reason against the passions has made a division of those who would have peace into two sects. The first would renounce their passions, and become gods; the others would renounce reason, and become brute beasts. (Des Barreaux.) [157] But neither can do so, and reason still remains, to condemn the vileness and injustice of the passions, and to trouble the repose of those who abandon themselves to them; and the passions keep always alive in those who would renounce them.

11 All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theatre. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love, principally when it is represented as very chaste and virtuous. For the more innocent it appears to innocent souls, the more they are likely to be touched by it.

115] Immateriality of the soul. When philosophers have subdued their passions, what material substance has managed to achieve this?

Quiero proceder a una especie de identificación. Saber que las pasiones existen y no poder sentirlas es horroroso. - Pero entonces -dijo Ángel-está claro que tiene usted por lo menos este deseo, y eso basta para que no esté tan vacío. - No tengo ningún motivo para decidirme por una cosa más bien que por otra -dijo Jacquemort-. Deseo robarles a los demás las razones que tienen.

Savoir qu'il existe des passions et ne pas les ressentir, c'est affreux.

Let us try to invent new passions or to reproduce the old ones with a like intensity. [ chapter 81 ] I think about forgotten gestures, the multiple signals and words of grandparents, lost little by little, not inherited, fallen one after the other off the tree of time.

O intelecto não é uma luz que arde sem óleo, mas é alimentado pela vontade e pelas paixões.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength

There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.

Each of our powers seeks its own outlet, each of our needs its own immediate gratification; we have not the subordination of all our powers to reason and of reason to God which would unify all our striving; every one of us is a civil war. At two points principally the disorder is at its worst, the passions and the imagination.

No person was one single emotion; no person had only one desire. They had many, and usually those desires conflicted with one another like two rosebushes fighting for the same patch of ground.

Los gustos humanos son tan variados como las huellas dactilares —dijo Sagaz—. A nadie le gusta todo, a todos les desagrada algo, alguien ama algo que tú odias... pero al menos, que te odien es mejor que nada.

fate was on your side, even when an omen tried to darken the way. You could always defeat gloomy Passions with optimism and determination.

It is quite understandable that you are afraid of this place. You have so little knowledge of it. You have caught glimpses of it, you have even been there at times, but for most of your life you have dwelt among your emotions, passions, and feelings and searched in them for inner peace and joy.

The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace...We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenness and not allow our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-rejection