quotations about passion
A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1749
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
Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Passion
Passion is never bad. It just needs to be channeled correctly.
ROB MORRISON
"Has your passion for your brand become a distraction?", Marketing Mag, November 23, 2016
I'd rather die of passion than of boredom!
EMILE ZOLA
The Ladies' Paradise
A man without passion is a statue, not a man.
PHRYNE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Make your passion your paycheck.
ANONYMOUS
Passion maketh man a beast.
L. E. DUPIN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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"
Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS
The Art of Writing
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