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's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron

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

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

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Blaise Pascal

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Fear is the passion of slaves.
Patrick Henry

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke

We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Virginia Woolf

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.
Mia Hamm

Chase your passion, not your pension.
Denis Waitley