Passion Quotes

It is in the nature of all passionate and uncontrolled emotion to prey upon and weaken the forces of reflective power, as much as it is in the nature of controlled emotion to strengthen them. ~ The True Story of Guenever by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Passion takes no count of time; peril marks no hours or minutes; wrong makes its own calendar; and misery has solar systems peculiar to itself. ~ The True Story of Guenever by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps One by one, they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. ~ Dubliners by James Joyce "Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination." ~ Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli May night had fallen soft and warm, enwrapping with its grape-bloom colour and its scents the billion caprices, intrigues, passions, longings, and regrets of men and women. ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy "Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit, Master Shallow." ~ Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare "Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!" ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money. ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! ~ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. With it love is born, and alights on the highest curve, glowing against the grey, sober against the fire. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster