Passions Quotes

• The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Life
  • Character
  • Theater

• He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wish
  • Suffering
  • Mad

• Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Passions
  • Rises
  • Phoenixes

• But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.

  

  Tertullian
  • Church
  • Bodies
  • Shelter

• Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Passions
  • Human Nature
  • Cure

• Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

  

  William Blake
  • Passions
  • Cultivated
  • Gates Of Heaven

• From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Opinions
  • Passions
  • Convictions

• Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Conscience
  • Passions
  • Human Laws

• There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

  

  Richard Branson
  • World
  • Follow
  • Serve

• A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Love
  • Person
  • Ardent

• Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Passions
  • Philosophers
  • Conceive

• Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Running
  • Wind
  • Passions

• Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

  

  George Eliot
  • Dress
  • Feeding
  • Provisions

• Let’s listen again to Dencombe: 'Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task.' I love the fact that he uses the word 'passion' and the word 'task' in the same sentence—the one so exalted, the other so commonplace. More than this, I love that he equates them. Our passion is our task. To follow the calling of art, to keep faith with it, to continue with your daily labors despite the frustrations, the distractions, and the other varieties of madness that will inevitably beset you—all this requires passion, but it also requires something else, something more down-to-earth. Call it steeliness. Call it persistence. Call it tenacity. Call it resilience. Call it devotion. Whatever you decide to call it, the ability to consecrate yourself to the daily task of art isn’t rooted in madness. As James knew, as Dencombe knew, it’s rooted in sanity.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Word
  • Passions

• To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Science
  • Enjoy
  • Pictures

• You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Goal
  • Passions
  • Joys

• The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Way
  • Explain

• Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Justice
  • Politics
  • Passions

• Great passions are incurable diseases.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Passions
  • Diseases

• Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Physical

• I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Work
  • Health
  • Environment

• The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Souls
  • Paradox
  • Intellectual Life

• It is the passions that do and undo everything.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Passions

• All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

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