Misguided Passion Quotes

The definition of a fanatic is a man who redoubles his efforts after he has forgotten the purpose of his struggle.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

Marrying early was a very big mistake. Everyone warned me but I felt I was in love and ignored their advice. I had to pay the price for my silly mistake when I had to compromise on my career.

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.

I always wanted to be Romeo, not Juliet. Romeo is a much cooler way to be - Juliet's just up in a balcony, waiting.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.