Quotes on Passion

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.