What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.
—Diane Ackerman
Love is only one of many passions.
—Samuel Johnson
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
—Oscar Wilde
Passionate love is not peculiar to the human species, for it penetrates through all existing things—celestial, elemental, vegetable, and mineral.
—Avicenna
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
—Nadia Boulanger
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
—H. L. Mencken
The birds are molting. If only man could molt also—his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.
—James Allen
It is easy to fly into a passion—anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way—that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
—Aristotle
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
—Mark Twain
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
—William Butler Yeats
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
—John Wooden
Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my hearts core.
—William Shakespeare
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
—Bette Davis
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
—Cicero
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
—D. H. Lawrence