Great passions, my dear, don’t exist, they’re liars’ fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or longer while.
Passion Quotes
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
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 […]
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
The passions rise higher at domestic than at imperial tragedies.
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable, is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
It is difficult to overcome one’s passions, and impossible to satisfy them.
They who allow their passions to confound the distinctions between right and wrong, are criminal. They may be convinced; but they have not come honestly by their conviction.
The will to overcome a passion is in the end merely the will of another or several other passions.
