It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Passion Quotes
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigor of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent repetition, his occasional rage sinks by decay of strength into peevishness; that peevishness, for want of novelty and variety, becomes habitual; the world falls off from around him, and he […]
However vast a man’s spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee. (Hamlet)
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
When the passions become masters, they are vices.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Tenderness is the repose of Passion.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
