Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Men are naturally barbarians, and that will remain forever. The passion, the love, and the lust is intensifying with time.

The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not.

You don't choose who you love.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

But it is not reason that governs love.

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.

Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable …

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

Desire is the very essence of man.

You can't control who you fall in love with.

Human nature fascinates me.

Frightened is the natural state for all men.

You don't know why you fall in love.

I'm not a machine.

Desire has no history.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

What is man but his passion?