Antes que me hubiera apasionado por mujer alguna, jugue¤   mi corazo¤ n  al azar y me lo gano¤   la violencia. Before I felt passion for any woman, I gambled my heart and lost it to violence.

-Rivera,Jose¤   Eustasio
  La vora¤  gine, pt.1 (translated asTheVortex,1935).

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

-Sartre,Jean-Paul
" 1943  L'Etre et le ne¤  ant (Being and Nothingness,1957) pt.4, ch.2, section 3 (translated by Hazel Barnes).

Nowadays a sales conference resembles a Passion play: everybody is invited to participate and marvel at the drama.

-Scribner, Charles,Jr
In the Company ofWriters: A Life in Publishing.

   If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

-Sterne, Laurence
  A SentimentalJourney,'Montriul'.

And you have only to look these happy couples in the face, to see they have never been in love, or in hate, or in any other high passion all their days.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.49^50.

Yes,Iama fatal man,Madame Fribsbi.Toinspirehopeless passion is my destiny.

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
^50  Mirobolant. Pendennis, ch.23.

   It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love† It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Autobiography, ch.12.

Oh, theyarepolitic: they knowourdesireisincreased by the difficulty of enjoying, whereas satiety is a blunt, weary, and drowsy passion.

-Webster,John
  Of women.TheWhite Devil, act1, sc.1.