Passionlessness Quotes

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.

In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears - venerating such as these, whose passions are extinguished and for whom there is no further source for fear, no one can calculate how great his merit is.

There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.