Passion Quotes

• We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. 
• Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. 
• If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
• It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.
• Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
• Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
• Passion makes the world go round.  Love just makes it a safer place.
• Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
• Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!  Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
• Follow your passion, and success will follow you.
• Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.  And then go and do that.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. 
• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
• Renew your passions daily.
• The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion.  But cosmetics are easier to buy.
• My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him.
• The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
• Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. 
• You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough.  You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. 
• But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.
• Passion is universal humanity.  Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
• In music the passions enjoy themselves.
• It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
• You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.
• Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.