PASSION QUOTES IV
quotations about passion
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.... If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
ROALD DAHL
My Uncle Oswald
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
Discover your divine assignment and you have no reason to retreat. Discover your passion and you laugh in the face of defeat.
KIRK NUGENT
Pursue Your Passion
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.
DOROTHY PARKER
"Unfortunate Coincidence", Not So Deep as a Well
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
JOHN DRYDEN
St. Cecilia's Day
Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
Passion makes a burlesque of the features.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Passion is hugely contagious, while the ersatz variety leaves everyone switched off. It also leaves many a lad with a potato clock he doesn't want and can't palm off on his sister for love nor money.
ROWAN PELLING
"Giving science toys to boys is not the worst of it -- we all secretly try to control our kids with gifts", The Telegraph, December 11, 2016
Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
The Virginians
When the mind is clouded with passions, it is odds but a man misses his way.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
We condemn generally the passions of others by other passions either like or unlike.
PASQUIER QUESNEL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
PAUL NEWMAN
attributed, Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Curse of Lono
Passion is oxygen of the soul.
BILL BUTLER
attributed, Gauraw, August 29, 2013
Passion costs me too much to bestow it upon every trifle.
THOMAS ADAM
Private Thoughts on Religion
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.
JIM BUTCHER
White Night
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
ALEXANDER POPE
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought