Eternal Passion! Eternal Pain!

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Philomela', l.31^2.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Literature and Dogma, preface.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and mastersthefearofdeath. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

La passion est toute l'humanite¤  . Sans elle, la religion, l'histoire, le roman, l'art seraient inutiles. Passion is all of humanity.Without it, religion, history, the novel and art would be useless.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  La Come¤  die humaine, foreword.

Only I discernö Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Two in the Campagna'.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting than fear. Burke

-Burke, Edmund
  On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt.2, section 2.

Butthislove ofoursisimmoderate, inordinate, and notto be comprehended inany bounds.It will notcontainitself within the union of marriage or apply to one object, but is a wandering, extravagant, a domineering, a boundless, an irrefragable, a destructive passion.

-Burton, Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior
Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.3, section 2, member1, subsection 2.

A passion of the brain, as all other melancholy, by reason of corrupt imagination.

-Burton, Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior
  Of love.  Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.3, section 2, member1, subsection 2.

Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends, He had the passion and the power to roam.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza13.

His love was passion's essence:öas a tree On fire by lightning, with ethereal flame Kindled he was, and blasted.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza 78.

As her lute doth live or die, Led by her passion, so must I: For when of pleasure she doth sing, My thoughts enjoy a sudden spring, But if she doth of sorrow speak, Ev'n from my heart the strings do break.

-Campion,Thomas
A Book of  Airs, no.6,'When to Her Lute Corinna Sings'.

   I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Dejection:  An Ode', stanza 3.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Table Talk (published1835), entry for18 Dec.

   Thereisnothing moreunbecoming a manofquality than to laugh;Jesu,'tissuchavulgarexpressionofthepassion!

-Congreve,William
  Lord Froth to Brisk. The Double Dealer, act1, sc.4.

A master passion is the love of news.

-Crabbe, George
  The Newspaper, l.279.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^9  Oliver Twist, ch.10.

I have forgot much,Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long: I have been faithful to thee,Cynara! in my fashion.

-Dowson, Ernest
  Verses,'Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae'.

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

-Dryden,John
  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

Whenlovegrows diseased,thebestthing we candoisto put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

-Etherege, Sir George
  The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.

Le charme de la nouveaute¤  , peu a'   peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a'   nu l'e¤  ternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les me"  mes formes et le me"  me langage. The charm of novelty, falling little by little like a robe, revealed the eternal monotony of passion, which has always the same forms and the same language.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Madame Bovary, pt.2, ch.12.