Worldly Passions Quotes

#1. Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

Rumi

#2. Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.

Billy Graham

#3. Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

Gautama Buddha

#4. Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#6. Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.

Eliphas Levi

#7. There is no true orator who is not a hero.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Men. I saw in Rome a statue of a boy extracting a thorn from his foot; I went my way, and returned in a year's time, and ;here sat the selfsame boy, extracting the intruder still, Is this to be our model?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom.

George Saunders

#10. Ambrosio, learn to know me better. I love you for your virtues: Lose them, and with them you lose my affections. I look upon you as a Saint; Prove to me that you are no more than Man, and I quit you with disgust.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#11. She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.

Gregory Maguire