Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

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.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Our passion is our strength.

When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

The anger of lovers renews their love.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Italy is a hot country. Wherever you feel heat, your excitement and passion come out. We're hot-blooded, and where there's passion there's love, but also anger, hunger, excitement.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Passion is the thing that won't let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.