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| A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them | | Carl Gustav Jung | |
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| All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. | | Honore de Balzac | |
| All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate | | Chamfort | |
| Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. | | Carl Sandburg | |
| Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. | | Rita Mae Brown | |
| 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 | |
| Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. | | James Joyce | |
| Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves. | | Blaise Pascal | |
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| Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last | | Samuel Johnson | |
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| Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram | | Karl Kraus | |
| He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion | | Blaise Pascal | |
| I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
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| I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success | | Ingrid Bergman | |
