#passions

....finally I see that it’s never been me, just a blanket that keeps you warm. Easily tossed along when something flashier or someone prettier comes along. Your heart I held so carefully, I see, this was all just a game... ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breakups #friendship #games #i-love-him #i-love-you

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#nature #passions #nature

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ↗

— John Adams

#cannot #dictates #evidence #facts #inclinations

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#cure #cured #devour #devoured #human

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write. ↗

— Faye Dunaway

#i #movies #obviously #passions #read

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#anger #delusion #evils #greed #ignorant

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#every #large #passions #same #small

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#act #boundary #feelings #influence #men

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. ↗

— Lord Byron

#feeling #i #i can #long #nature

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. ↗

— Angela Carter

#appearance #cover #enterprises #even #himself