Quotes About Passion

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Who loves, raves.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Sweet is revenge - especially to women.

I am ashes where once I was fire...

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

We of the craft (poets) are all crazy.

But who, alas! can love, and then be wise?

I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion.

Censure no more shall brand my humble name The child of passion and the fool of fame

I could love anything on Earth that appeared to wish it.

Unquenched, unquenchable, Around, within, thy heart shall dwell; Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

You consume me I don't even fight Oh, I feel intoxicated... But beware I bite.

I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.

on the other hand the machine does not bleed, ache, hang for hours in the empty sky in a torment of hope to learn the fate of another machine, nor does it cry out with joy nor dance in the air with the fierce passion of a bird.

Amplified authentic opinions can be driven with passion while still anchored in respect for those that have a different view.