#passions

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

#argument #cautious #governed #habit #intense

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#passions #dreams

I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improvement of my mind but I find that much of it has been spent extremely foolish and that walking in the pasture at dusk with virtuous, amiable and genteel young ladies I experience none but swineish passions. I commenced to read Russell’s Modern Europe sometime last summer. ↗

— John Cheever

#experience

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#life #passions #writing #life

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. ↗

— George Berkeley

#body #every #exist #formed #ideas

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. ↗

— Lord Byron

#comes #god #high #made #out

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#exaggerate #only #passions

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#feed #flame #frame #his #love

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle. ↗

— Barton Booth

#grief #miracle #passions #rage #touch

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#human #passions #sands #sea