passion Quotes

“Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“In a word, suppressing feelings in order to live to a ripe old age, or dying young by accepting the martyrdom of passion, that is our destiny.”

― Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass’s Skin

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“The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't bum together, I'll burn alone.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

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“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.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

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“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

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“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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