The power of passion

A strong emotion evoking strong opinions; some quotes on the subject of passion:

“Never underestimate the power of passion.” Eve Sawyer

“If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.” François de la Rochefoucauld

“Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.” Christian Nevell Bovee

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” Oscar Wilde

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.” Aristotle

“Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.” Lord Byron

“A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.” Henri Frédéric Amiel

“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.” Federico Fellini

“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

“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

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