Famous quotes containing the word passion:
“It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)