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Aldous Huxley
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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Garrison Keillor
You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.
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George Santayana
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
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Honor? de Balzac
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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John Wesley
Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
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Terri Guillemets
I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.
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Yves Saint Laurent
The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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