Quotes about Passion
Love is an intensification of life.
— Thomas Merton
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
— Evelyn Underhill
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.
— Joseph Addison
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
— Joseph Addison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
— Joseph Addison
Let Rufus weep, rejoice, stand, sit, or walk, Still he can nothing but of Nævia talk: Let him eat, drink, ask Questions, or dispute, Still he must speak of Nævia, or be mute. He writ to his Father, ending with this Line, I am, my Lovely Nævia, ever thine.
— Joseph Addison
There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games.
— Ernest Hemingway
The theologian who has no joy in his work is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this science.
— Eugene Peterson
Our God! GOD the one and only! Love GOD, your God with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got!
— Eugene Peterson
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
— Euripides
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
— Euripides
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
— Euripides