How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Albert Camus

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Charles Dickens

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Henry Miller

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
Charlie Sheen

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren Kierkegaard

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
William Blake

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
Giacomo Casanova

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
Gertrude Stein

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
Marquis de Sade