Quotes About Intensity

Aveva degli occhi azzurri penetranti e intelligenti che avrebbero certamente inchiodato i miei con la forza e la fissità del loro sguardo, se io non li avessi deliberatamente evitati, preferendo soffermarmi sulla carnagione leggermente screziata e sui suoi folti capelli ramati.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain

The interesting people are always immoderate.

He may not have been exactly what she wanted in a man, but he was unsurpassable in providing the rabid fandom which, at the time, she needed even more than romance.

She could clearly perceive the contours of her obsession with him. It would have been sensible to tear it from her skull, but the object had grown too large to be removed without splitting her head open. Despite its sick enormity, it was also too beautiful to her.

she tuned out the tour guide and heeded the October angle of the yellow light, the heart-mangling intensities of the season. In the wind pushing waves across the bay she could smell night's approach. It was coming at her fast: mystery and pain and a strange yearning sense of possibility, as though heartbreak were a thing to be sought and moved toward.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

I turned myself into a vinyl hawk, scouring record shops for out-of-print LPs, studying them with Talmudic intensity. The music I loved would all be dug out of studio archives and put onto CD within a few years, but then it was still scratchy and moldy and entirely my own.

Sometimes feelings are like that - not positive, not negative, just a lot.

We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames

he was leaving me. I wondered if I should stop him. If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him to love me. I wanted to hold his shoulders down and shout into his face.

I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.

I wanted to shout myself into his ear.

What do you think is going on?' 'I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

Yo tuve más miedo que el, porque no se trataba solo de gusto y amor, la cosa era de coraje tambien. Había que tener muchas güevas para meterse con una mujer como Rosario.

I remember him with a dark passionflower in his hand, looking at it as no one has ever looked at such a flower, though they might look from the twilight of day until the twilight of night, for a whole life long.

Soy esa torpe intensidad que es un alma.

Buenos Aires] No nos une el amor sino el espanto. Será por eso que la quiero tanto

Sentiment is an echo of violence. It's not really a vital expression.

Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon.

Peter exercised a zeal which was unregulated by knowledge

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.