More quotations tagged with “passion”
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
—Unknown
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
—Sue Halpern
The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.
—Stanley Kunitz
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
—Seneca
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
—Saul Bellow