Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
Passion Quotes
The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart; producing good, if moderately indulged; but certain destruction, if suffered to become inordinate.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate.
Act nothing in furious passion. It’s putting to sea in a storm.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last.
Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
