When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. – Margery Allingham
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. – Henri Frederic Amiel
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. – Georges Bataille
Passion doesnt look beyond the moment of its existence. – Christian Nevell Bovee
I dont think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because Im putting so much into it. – George Brett
There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldnt have opened for anyone else. – Joseph Campbell
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. – George Chapman
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. – Bette Davis
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. – Marquis De Sade