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Quotes About Intense

These experiences we can only find in individuals for whom religion exists not as a dull habit, but as an acute fever rather. But
~ William James
There is the heat, which clots the air around her and stops up her pores and her eyes and ears
~ China Mieville
I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
~ Hector Elizondo
Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being.
~ Helen Fisher
my heart stirring this way and that like so much hot soup
~ Helen Oyeyemi
No estábamos angustiados, pues los tres sabíamos que iba a morir, pero supongo que lo que sentíamos era sencillamente un amor intenso, un amor sin segundas intenciones, sin la vanidad y el interés de los que tan a menudo es expresión ese sentimiento.
~ Henry Marsh
there was apparent in all a sort of anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness of some great, unfathomable mystery being accomplished... the most solemn mystery in the world was being accomplished. Evening passed, night came on. And the feeling of suspense and softening of the heart before the unfathomable did not wane, but grew more intense. No one slept.
~ Leo Tolstoy
to stop loving and, at the same time, fall in love means to love twice as strong than before.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Then, wham! My first grandchild was born... I was jolted, blindsided by a wallop of loving more intense than anything I could remember or had ever imagined.
~ Lesley Stahl
She hadn't even known they were volcanic, but now they were lobbing big seminal gobbets of lava all over their lower slopes, like a drunk prom queen puking on her dress. Shit was getting geological, yo.
~ Lev Grossman
McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
~ Kevin Whately
there was no question but what he had just experienced came from beyond him—a sign of his transformation, and certainly the wonder of it all. Love so pure, so intense, burned away all he had been. No longer was he the second son, the princeling who would never make his rightful claim, the man of thwarted ambitions, the lonely officer trapped in a post and a land that hated him and all that he stood for. None of this mattered. Not in the face of this love.
~ Janette Oke
Cet amour le ravageait d'autant plus qu'il précédait la connaissance de l'amour. C'était un mal vague, intense, contre lequel il n'existe aucun remède, un désir chaste sans sexe et sans but.
~ Jean Cocteau
I will write my name in fire red.
~ Jean Rhys
I love badly. That is too little or too much. I throw myself over an unsuitable cliff, only to reel back in horror from a simple view out the window.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I don't think fashion people know about my work. Some collectors find some of the work too intense.
~ Unknown
During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.
~ Leon M. Lederman
Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
~ Tea Leoni
Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.
~ Josh Lucas
The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.
~ Alex Garland
My work life is intense. But I love what I do.
~ David Rubenstein
There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.
~ Elaine Stritch