Passion Quotes

Wealth is the fountain head of passions.
Ali bin Abu-Talib



The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
Aristotle



How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves! Again thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain!
Matthew Arnold



How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
Wystan Hugh Auden



The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
Honor de Balzac



What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes



To be crushed in the winepress of passion.
Gabriel Biel



The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.
Franz Boas



I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning



She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham



What a woman says to a passionate lover should be written in the wind and the running water.
Gaius Valerius Catullus



Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield



Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.
Bob Dylan



The Passions are like Fire and Water ; good Servants, but bad Masters.
Thomas Fuller (writer)



Your greatest ministry innovation could come from your greatest limitation - if you have a sincere passion to reach and care for people.
Craig Groeschel