“ Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 2K
“ Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 1.5K
“ It is the passions that do and undo everything. ”
- Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle- Copy
- 64
“ I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.2K
“ There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years. ”
- Edward Hoagland- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. ”
- John Donne- Copy
- 915
“ Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid? ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. ”
- Marguerite Yourcenar- Copy
- 3.6K
“ It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
- 1.7K
“ One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love — any love — reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford — but you'll take him anyway. ”
- Judith Viorst- Copy
- 1.4K
“ If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 2.9K
“ All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. ”
- Chamfort- Copy
- 714
“ Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
- 2K
“ Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. ”
- Paul Newman- Copy
- 740
“ There are seasons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our strength. ”
- La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The worst of slaves are those that are constantly serving their passions. ”
- Diogenes- Copy
- 1.5K
“ We condemn generally the passions of others by other passions either like or unlike. ”
- Pasquier Quesnel- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 1.1K
“ But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. - Isaac Watts. ”
- Isaac Watts- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession. ”
- Brooks Robinson- Copy
- 4K
“ Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about. ”
- Jackie Collins- Copy
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