Best passion & fall Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.”

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.”

Writing Important Matter Character Moving Fall Passion Forget Novel Mystery Tree Emotional Goes On Ten Falling In Love Insight Lists Psychological Lyrical

Author:Jonis Agee

“Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.”

Looks Joy Desire Fall Passion Names Grows Grief Influence Bears Staring Blank Toes Exceed Numb

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“Le charme de la nouveaute , peu a' peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a' nu l'e ternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les me" mes formes et le me" me langage. The charm of novelty, falling little by little like a robe, revealed the eternal monotony of passion, which has always the same forms and the same language.”

Littles Form Fall Passion Language Eternal Charm Novelty Robes Monotony

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion.”

Ifs Men May Persons Self Character Fall Passion Laughing Wiser

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.”

Ifs Way Heart Ends Fall Passion Forget Love Is Crazy Love You Obsession Heels Companionship Forget You Listen To Your Heart Head Over Heels

Author:William Parrish

“Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.”

Mind Body Action Lasts Fall Passion Sleep Ready Sweet Lovers Intellectual Harmony Active Senses Enjoyment Resumes Fall Back Sweet Sleep

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison

“The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.”

Years Fall Passion Happened Europe Western Western Europe

Author:William Pfaff

“To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.”

Want May Fall Passion Fate Luck Faults Misfortunes Good Luck Curb Blameless

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“When Jesus wept, the falling tear in mercy flowed beyond all bound; when Jesus groaned, a trembling fear seized all the guilty world around.”

World Fall Passion Jesus Tears Mercy Bounds Guilty Trembling

Author:William Billings

“The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.”

Wells Soul Body Seems Fall Passion Danger Ill Secure Infection Precarious

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.”

Fall Passion Sex Sin Animal Disease Driven Sensual Enjoyed Paradise Dissatisfaction

Book:Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

“Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.”

Men Love Fall Passion Falling In Love Vanity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.”

Men May Soul States Body Seems Fall Passion Perfect Danger Health Fit Sickness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.”

Ifs Men Seems Fall Passion Wish Blame Faults Philosopher Vices Pious

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.”

Hands Fall Passion Loses Taste Cooking Smell Pursue My Passion

Author:Nicole Trunfio

“When you do something you love, you have a passion for it. It comes naturally. Staying true to yourself and doing what you love keeps you going...everything else falls into place.”

Fall Passion Love You Staying What You Love True To Yourself Stay True Fall Into Place Doing What You Love Something You Love Stay True To Yourself

Author:Christian Louboutin

“The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.”

Persons Stills Fall Passion Felt Emotion Violence Mankind Degrees Empathy Concerned Spectators Sympathetic Sufferers

Book:Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings

Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings

“War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.”

World War Ends Fall Passion Grows Blood Spring Deserve Gains Guilty Consideration Shed Calamity Fury Indulgence

Book:A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc

Source: A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc

“You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.”

Ifs Writing Enough Happens Song Fall Passion Enjoy Songwriting

Author:Vance Joy

“So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.”

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

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