quotations about passion
A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1749
Passion is often hailed as the minimum requirement of any team. Its importance rarely understated, pundits, managers and players alike declare the desire, the drive, the hunger that their teams can and will display or, in the case of defeat, that they lacked.
ADAM HILSENRATH
"The fundamentals of sporting passion", Cherwell Online, December 4, 2016
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
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
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
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 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