One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Passion Quotes
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
To lepers and to outcasts thou dost show – that passion is the paradise below.
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers, but, dressed 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.
We are minor in everything but our passions.
