Passionless Quotes

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Calm of mind, all passion spent.

Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.

The law is reason, free from passion.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.

Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger

I gotta follow my heart. It ain't football. If football made me complete, I would play. But whenever I think of it, my heart pulls me away from whatever reason... This means I'm done.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.