Famous quotes containing the word passion:
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“I should prefer a Woman that is agreeable in my own Eye, and not deformed in that of the World, to a celebrated Beauty. If you marry one remarkably beautiful, you must have a violent Passion for her, or you have not the proper Taste of her Charms; and if you have such a Passion for her, it is odds but it will be imbittered [sic] with Fears and Jealousies.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept,
Till Declamation roar’d, while Passion slept.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)