“Passion looks like anger to people who aren’t passionate about anything.”

“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”

“Little people have few passions, they hardly have anything but needs.”

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

“Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.”
Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.

“He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. We must approach knowledge from the inside; inspired by passion.”

“All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists in bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.”

“I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.”

“If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.”

“I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.”