Passion Quotes - Page 29

• Great passions are incurable diseases.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Disease, Incurable Disease, Great Passion

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

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• Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Virtue, Defects, Highest

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Safety, Demon, Lost

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• What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Poetry, Noble

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Powerful, Grief, Ambition

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• Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Kissing, Heaven, Looks

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

  Martial

  Lawyer, Eloquence, Referring

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• The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

  Tacitus

  Dominion

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• How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Wavering, Vices

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes”, p.262

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• Love why do we one passion call,
  When 'tis a compound of them all?
  Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,
  In all their equipages meet;
  Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear,
  Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.681

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• The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

  Edith Sitwell

  Spring, Fire, Break Out

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• [Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Exercise, Emotional

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.331, eBookIt.com

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• We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

  Pliny the Elder

  Envy, Inferiority, Appearance

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• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Two, Voice

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• The passions are the voice of the body.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Voice, Body, Conscience

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.476, eKitap Projesi

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• Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

  Ouida

  Love, Past, Men

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.26, Ouida

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• The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

  Anais Nin

  Travel, Blessed, Eye

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• The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Party, Heart, Political

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.49

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• The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Wind, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.36

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• Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, War, Vanity

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• Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, May, Submission

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.178

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• There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sloth, Causes, Excited

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.173

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• In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Citizens, Failing

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.301, Hackett Publishing

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• I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Work, Believe, People

  Katherine Mansfield (1951). “Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922”

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• People are arguing whether Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" is anti-semitic. Well, whether it is or it isn't, it doesn't matter, because I've been in touch with his accounting firm, Rosencrantz, Levy and Stern, and they're screwing him out of his profits.

  Joan Rivers

  People, Matter, Arguing

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