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Quotes About Passion

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"
~ Jeremy Piven
I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.
~ John Krasinski
I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.
~ John Legend
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
~ John Newton
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
~ Joseph Conrad
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
~ Joseph de Maistre
I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.
~ Josh Ritter
I get to my feet when Chelsea fans sing 'Stand up if you hate Man U'. But though I hate them, I have to admire them too.
~ Ken Bates
I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
~ Kevin Bacon
I can't function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.
~ Kristen Ashley
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.
~ Lytton Strachey
When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Obsession is a young man's game.
~ Michael Caine
The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.
~ Mike Pohjola
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
~ Moliere
Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.
~ Paul McCartney
Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny
~ Paulo Coelho
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
~ Plutarch
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
~ Olga Kurylenko
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
~ Oliver Goldsmith