Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
Passion Quotes
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.
The end of passion may refashion a friend. Eyes meet in fear of such dear defeat. The heart’s core, unbroken, cringes. The soul’s door swings open on its hinges.
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
She parried time’s malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart – And aged her in a day!
It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.
This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false: its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted; he that admits it, is prepared to comply with every desire that caprice or opportunity shall excite, and to flatter himself that […]
