Famous Passion Quotes

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

Annie Besant

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Bernard Mandeville

In moments of doubt, remind yourself of the reasons why you started. Let your passion be your driving force.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Samuel Johnson

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

James Joyce

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

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

William Penn

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Søren Kierkegaard

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow