Passions Quotes

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Love is only one of many passions.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Passions are the gales of life.

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.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

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

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.