Passion Quotes

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.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last.

Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.