Quotes About Intensity

I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.

It's rotten that every bit of real love in the world is ninety-nine percent passion and one little soupcon of jealousy

his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had. She

like an angry diamond

Isabella had been for some time capable of very strong, if very transient emotions...

He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over-wound clock.

Is it not in the nature of loss that we measure the dizzying intensity of love? And in the hope of meeting again, the strength to go on living?

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally.

the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

No hay mayor tragedia que tener la misma intensidad, en una misma alma o en un hombre, del sentimiento intelectual y del sentimiento moral. Para que un hombre pueda ser distintiva y absolutamente moral, tiene que ser un poco estúpido. Para que un hombre pueda ser absolutamente intelectual, tiene que ser un poco inmoral. No sé qué juego o ironía de las cosas condena al hombre a la imposibilidad de que se dé esta dualidad tan grande.

I abhor running real risks, but it's not because I'm afraid of feeling too intensely. It's because they break my perfect focus on my sensations, and this disturbs and depersonalizes me. I never go where there's risk. I fear the tedium of dangers.

O valor das coisas não está no tempo que elas duram, mas na intensidade com que acontecem, por isso, existem momentos inesquecíveis, coisas inexplicáveis e pessoas incomparáveis. The value of things, are not in the time they endure, but in the intensity they happen, that's why, exist unforgettable moments, inexplicable things and incomparable people.

Quanto mais eu sinta, quanto mais eu sinta como várias pessoas, Quanto mais personalidade eu tiver, Quanto mais intensamente, estridentemente as tiver, Quanto mais simultaneamente sentir com todas elas, Quanto mais unificadamente diverso, dispersadamente atento, Estiver, sentir, viver, for, Mais possuirei a existência total do universo, Mais completo serei pelo espaço inteiro fora

Así amo: fijo, por bella. atractiva o, de cualquier otro modo amable, una figura de mujer o de hombre –donde no hay deseo, no hay preferencia de sexo– y esa figura me obsesiona, me cautiva, se apodera de mí. Así que no quiero más que verla, ni miro nada con más terror que la posibilidad de llegar a conocer y a hablar con la persona real que esa figura manifiesta en apariencia.

In everything I am an intense, rather coarse dilettante.

Mrs. Pritchard could not stand an anticlimax. She required the taste of blood from time to time to keep her equilibrium.

I'm the biggest NBA fan you will meet in your life.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.

I've always been a football fanatic.

I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.

I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.