„And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller's words a tyrant.“
— Sigmund Freud
„The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.“
— W.B. Yeats
„The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.“
— Leonard Ravenhill
„In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational“
— Cesare Pavese