emotional fervor Quotes

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

You cannot lead without passion. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. Passion actually covers a multitude of sins. Real EntreLeaders care deeply, and that is basically what passion is. Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.

Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you.

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.