Passion quotes

There is nothing that touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

Joseph Addison

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

Johnny Depp

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Abraham Maslow

The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

Tacitus

God bless America, land that I love, stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above.

Irving Berlin

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Federico Fellini

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Alice Walker

Life is paradise for those who love many things with passion.

Leo Buscaglia

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Alexis Carrel

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

Gilbert Parker

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

Alphonse Daudet

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Jean Paul Sartre

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

Rachel Carson

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Jean Paul Sartre

It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.

Frances Burnett

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Antisthenes

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

A master-passion is the love of news.

George Crabbe

Passion makes every detail important.

G. K. Chesterton

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work, a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Barbra Streisand

We work in the dark,
We do what we can,
We give what we have,
Our doubt is our passion,
And our passion is our task,
The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James

Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.

Alex Lowe

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

Honoré de Balzac