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Quotes About Intensity

Y es raro porque, aunque pase el tiempo, el dolor de la pérdida, cuando se pone a doler, te sigue pareciendo igual de intenso.
~ Rosa Montero
a menudo oculto riéndome mi absoluta falta de alegría. Es algo que aprendí a hacer cuando me di cuenta de que las criaturas que lo viven todo tan intensamente como yo y no son capaces de cambiar esta característica de su naturaleza, tienen que disimularla lo mejor posible.»
~ Rosa Montero
The difference is that love and hate are mixed together now, making it impossible for me to decide which is the stronger and at times they even seem the same.
~ Rosalind Laker
Ele é um profeta em seus últimos anos de vida, seu corpo vai ficando cada dia mais fraco, mas dentro dele arde um fogo indômito que brilha com intensidade cada vez maior".
~ Rosamund Bartlett
She gave him a look that would've shaved his face if he had whiskers.
~ Louise Erdrich
She slept hot just the way her words sometimes blew hot.
~ Louise Erdrich
She gave him a look that would have shaved his face if he'd had whiskers.
~ Louise Erdrich
Fury lived in me under pressure. Now it all started going off inside my body like popped corks; the rage champagne and feral glee were foaming out.
~ Louise Erdrich
Ayiih! Tell me, does this Chopin know love songs? I have a few I don't sing unless I mean for sure to capture my woman." "This Chopin makes songs so beautiful your knees shake. Dogs cry. The trees moan. Your thoughts fly up nowhere. You can't think. You become flooded in the heart.
~ Louise Erdrich
The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway station, full to bursting. Whole trees bristling with living noise makers, mutilated erections, horror.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Sophie, as I'd noticed on other occasions, needed time to get her emotions started. Not that she was cold. When it hit her, it was like a ton of bricks, but she needed time.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Leer a Céline presupone enfrentarse a una reducida pero intensa e insistente constelación de sombras fantasmales que, situadas entre el lector y el texto
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Sabes que si me marcho es porque te estorbo. No soy un ser normal... soy fiel, te lo aseguro, a mi manera, atrozmente fiel, hasta reventar. Pero me agobia la regularidad de la vida. En realidad, me siento mucho más cerca de la gente cuando la dejo.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A slap or a fat check is what it takes if you want to see all the passions that go beating about behind a face take a sudden tack. It's as beautiful as watching a sailing ship maneuvering in a stormy sea. The whole person keels over in the changed wind.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
La emoción más antigua y más intensa de la humanidad es el miedo, y el más antiguo y más intenso de los miedos es el miedo a lo desconocido.
~ Lovecraft Howard Phillips
Children abandoned by the universe—and that was how it felt to those whose mothers went away or died young—always spent their lives seeking perfect, intense union. Anything less felt like a failure. Stevie thought about all the pain that quest had caused herself and others.
~ Luanne Rice
You make it sound mad," Sylvie said. "As if it drives you crazy.
~ Luanne Rice
Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature. All spirit and fire and dew, as she was, the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled intensity. Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man—but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
In the act itself there is a point at which a light that comes from nowhere starts flickering like a strobe. What happens is not exactly a hallucination. But it wells up from deep in the earth and pounds through my body and there is nowhere to escape from its intensity.
~ Luke Davies
Can I make myself any clearer? I can't live without you. I don't know what to call it, but if it isn't love, I don't know what is. So stop looking down your prim little nose at me and say you'll marry me so I don't have to kill myself
~ Lydia Joyce
He'd seen firsthand how raw parenting made you. Might as well strip your clothes off and run down High Street in a hail of gunfire. That was being a parent.
~ Lydia Millet