Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
George A. Smith

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope

Our true passions are selfish.
Stendhal

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord Byron

Passions are the gales of life.
Alexander Pope

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Antoine Rivarol

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
David Hume

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
Faye Dunaway

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Mason Cooley

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
George Berkeley

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
Herbert Read

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
William Butler Yeats