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
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
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
Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.
—Unknown
First it was passion, then it became duty, and finally an intolerable burden.
—Carl Jung
I deserve passion. I deserve to be loved—in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.
—Loretta Chase in Silk Is For Seduction
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
—Nikolai Gogol
Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.
—Kristin Hannah in Distant Shores
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
—Georges Clemenceau
My life wasn't horrible, but I didn't see any passionate reason to love it.
—Shannon A. Thompson in 2013: A Stellar Collection
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
—Woodrow Wilson