passion Quotes

“Every movement of infinity comes about by passion, and no reflection can bring a movement about.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“You have never loved me as I love you—never—never! Yours is not a passionate heart—your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite—not a woman!”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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“All men are liable to error, and most men are in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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“But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even had a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“But an infinity of passions may be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a small space.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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