The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
Alfred Jarry

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel Proust

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.
Orson Pratt

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
Eric Hoffer

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
Marquis de Sade

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
Robert Southey

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Richard Steele

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
Barton Booth

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
Joshua Lederberg

Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Antoine Rivarol

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
Henry Home

We are minor in everything but our passions.
Elizabeth Bowen

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
Billy Barty

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
Thomas S. Monson