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Quotes About Intensity

The start of work means the end to freedom, but also to doubt, intensity and wayward desires.
~ Alain de Botton
She would have stayed there, blasting away wildly, had not Finn half dragged, half carried her away.
~ Alan Dean Foster
He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
In a world where time is a sense, like sight or like taste, a sequence of episodes may be quick or may be slow, dim or intense, salty or sweet, causal or without cause, orderly or random, depending on the prior history of the viewer.
~ Alan Lightman
The air grows too warm, too quickly. I want very much for a beautiful woman to hand me a glass of very cold beer. All the atoms in the test chamber are screaming at once. The light. . . the light is taking me to pieces.
~ Alan Moore
Twenty-two guys chasing a ball and a whole crowd screaming their heads off. It was an absurd ritual,
~ Derek Smith
Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss
~ Diablo Cody
You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.
~ Diana Gabaldon
More you feel passion, more you lose control
~ diana k.
I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it.
~ Diana Palmer
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
~ Diana Peterfreund
Sometimes you have to fight fire with a blowtorch
~ Diane Mott Davidson
Comment pourrait-on faire sentir l'intensité de cette honte à ceux qui ne l'ont jamais vécue ? Et la force des motivations engendrées par la volonté d'en sortir ? (p. 47)
~ Didier Eribon
Dio mio possibile che non riuscisse a pensare ad altro? la mente era fissa lì, sempre sullo stesso argomento tormentoso, e all'altezza del palazzo di Brera lo prese lo sgomento perché in questo preciso istante ha capito di essere completamente infelice senza nessuna possiblità di rimedio, una cosa assurda e idiota, tuttavia così vera e intensa che non trovava più requie.
~ Dino Buzzati
blood-thirsty with love
~ Djuna Barnes
Love is death, come upon with passion; I know, that is why love is wisdom. I love her as one condemned to it.
~ Djuna Barnes
You call it madness, but I call it love.
~ Don Byas
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.
~ Donald Cammell
Poetry gives the griever not release from grief but companionship in grief. Poetry embodies the complexity of feelings at their most intense and entangled, and therefore offers . . . the company of tears.
~ Donald Hall
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
~ Rainer Werner Fassbinder
I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.
~ Enzo Ferrari
What is snowboarding to me? I'd say it's when I feel passion. That is, if passion is a combination of utter joy, frustration and rage. It's my life.
~ Travis Rice
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
~ Bill Shankly
Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
~ Martha Reeves