"What is passion?
It is surely the becoming of a person.
Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time?
Most of our being is at rest, unlived.
In passion, the body and the spirit
seek expression outside of self.
Passion is all that is other from self.
Sex is only interesting when it releases passion.
The more extreme and the more expressed that
passion is, the more unbearable does life seem
without it. It reminds us that if passion dies
or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon,
come what may, we will be wholly so."
-John Boorman

"Without passion
man is a mere latent force and possibility,
like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron
before it can give forth its spark."
-Henri Frederic Amiel

"Passion doesn't look beyond
the moment of its existence."
-Christian Nevell Bovee

"Our passions do not live apart
in locked chambers, but dress in their
small wardrobe of notions, bring their
provisions to a common table and mess
together, feeding out of the common store
according to their appetite."
-George Eliot

"There is no end. There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life."
-Frederico Fellini

"A man in passion rides a horse
that runs away with him."
-Thomas Fuller

"In the human heart new passions
are forever being born; the overthrow of
one almost always meansthe rise of another."
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"The happiness of a man in this life
does not consist in the absence
but in the mastery of his passions."
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Be still when you have nothing to say;
when genuine passion moves you,
say what you've got to say,
and say it hot."
-D. H. Lawrence

"Only as you do know yourself
can your brain serve you as
a sharp and efficient tool.
Know your own failings,
passions, and prejudices
so you can separate them
from what you see."
-Bernard M. Baruch

"Nor do not saw the air too much
with your hand, thus, but use all gently.
For in the very torrent, tempest,
and as I may say, whirlwind of passion,
you must acquire and beget a temperance
that may give it smoothness."
-William Shakespeare

"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

"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 motions..it becomes
sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you will never cease to grow."
-Anthony J. D'Angelo