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| In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love | | Lord Byron | |
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| It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance and the other in a dusky and lurid glow. | | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it | | Aristotle | |
| It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. | | Christian Nevell Bovee | |
| It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters | | Aesop | |
| It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves. | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind. | | Alfred Adler | |
| 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 | |
| Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart | | Edmund Burke | |
| No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. | | H. G. Wells | |
| No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. | | Edmund Burke | |
| Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion | | Helen Rowland | |
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| Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after | | Jonathan Swift | |
