passion Quotes

“I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake: he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“However, our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

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“It is not every one . . . who has your passion for dead leaves.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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“A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

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“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

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