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Passion creates suffering.

Only a poor man knows what such a passion costs in cab-hire, gloves, linen, tailor's bills, and the like. If the Platonic stage lasts a little too long, the affair grows ruinous.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Because of his passion for indigenous Mexican art, he spends his weekends in Tlaxcala or Teotihuacan looking for good specimens of small statues.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

She has a lot of passion for the environment so she is always helping clean it up and saving animals and forests.

Shortly after coming back to France, he decided to abandon his career as an economist in order to dedicate himself to his true passion: writing, in Spain.

His unrelenting mildness infuriates me! Where is his drive? Where is his passion?

The art of recognizing matsutake mushrooms became my passion, culminating in my writing a book on it.

The exciting ball skills of all the great Brazilian players, including, Pelé, owe something to the pioneering spirit of Charles Miller and his passion for the game of football.

Crowning toddler beauty pageant queens is Mr. Fredericksen's passion.

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

But when hero worship turns into an all-consuming passion, it can be an addiction as dangerous as any other.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.

A chance to do as we please, especially to do as little hard work as possible, is a secret desire of almost everybody.

conscious desire

When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.

A young woman most penitently confessed to a friend of mine that an unholy desire to read women's magazines was her besetting 'temptation'.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

A high household savings rate in Japan is attributed, among other things, to people's desire to save money to buy a home.

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

I know you're at an age where sexual desire flourishes and you want to do 'you-know-what' with 'that' but... well, sit down there.

Uncontrolled, these forces may be dangerous and destructive, but once mastered they can be bent to man's will and desire.

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of matters divine and human, and the comprehension of what is just and what is unjust.

1. Failure was proof the desire wasn't strong enough. / 2. It's weird how strong that desire is. / 3. It's desire that drives me.