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Quotes about passion
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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (Sandburg Carl)
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. (Sandburg Carl)
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. (Sandburg Carl)
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. (Sandburg Carl)
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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. (Sandburg Carl)
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. (Sandburg Carl)
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. (Sandburg Carl)
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. (Sandburg Carl)
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. (Sandburg Carl)
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. (Sandburg Carl)
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. (Sandburg Carl)
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. (Sandburg Carl)
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. (Sandburg Carl)
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. (Sandburg Carl)
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. (Sandburg Carl)
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. (Sandburg Carl)
It is the passions that do and undo everything. (Sandburg Carl)
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. (Sandburg Carl)
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. (Sandburg Carl)
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. (Sandburg Carl)
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. (Sandburg Carl)
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. (Sandburg Carl)
He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act. (Sandburg Carl)
Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act. (Sandburg Carl)
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. (Sandburg Carl)
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