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.
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Passion is the trigger of success.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Passions are the gales of life.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation — both a gift and a mastering passion — that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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