passions quotes

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

Passions are the gales of life.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.