quotations about passion
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1749
I'd rather die of passion than of boredom!
EMILE ZOLA
The Ladies' Paradise
Make your passion your paycheck.
ANONYMOUS
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you directly to your purpose.
ANONYMOUS
Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Passion
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
A man without passion is a statue, not a man.
PHRYNE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.
ROBERT BROWNING
"Two in Campagna"
Passion maketh man a beast.
L. E. DUPIN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS
The Art of Writing