Quotes About Intensity

The Australians are a weird bunch - until the cricket starts they're really friendly, saying 'good luck' all the time, but the moment the cricket begins they have a real go at you.

I love you sometimes foolishly and at these moments I do not understand that I could not, would not, and should not be so absorbing a thought for you as you are for me...

In an almost totally insentient cosmos only human feeling is interesting or relevant to what the soul searches for...suffering is the most expensive of human emotions, but it is the most intense and precious of them, because suffering most efficiently humanizes the unfeeling universe.

Laura n'a jamais dissimulé ni différé le moindre de ses sentiments. Si Laura aime quelqu'un, elle l'embrasse, si Laura boit, elle est ivre, et elle le dit, si elle s'emmerde, elle quitte la table au milieu du repas, en disant qu'elle s'emmerde, et si elle veut tuer quelqu'un, elle le tue. Et elle le tue elle-même, et elle dit pourquoi!

All too violently my heart still flows toward you—my heart, upon which my summer burns, short, hot, melancholy, overblissful; how my summer heart craves your coolness.

Jetzt komme, Feuer!

rien de grand dans le monde ne s'est accomplis sans passion

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.

Of all that is written, I love only that which a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.

That need to talk, talk, talk; I mistrust it, it repulses me. Most people are equivalent to noise for me. Outer noise. Contaminating noise. See, they feel like noise which is perfectly unrelated with intensity. My inner system can accept noise associated only with powerful living, not weak and stupidly persistent surviving.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.

Intense hope is a much stronger stimulant to life than any single instance of happiness which actually occurs.

The genius, in work and deed, is necessarily a squanderer: he squanders himself. That is his greatness! … He flows out, he overflows, he uses himself up, he does not spare himself—and this is a calamitous involuntary fatality, no less than a river's flooding the land.

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit.

Oh, no," Fafhrd told her as he buckled on his sword. "You wanted the head of Krovas heaved at your feet in a great splatter of blood, and that's what you're going to get, like it or not!

When I love I love, when I hate I hate. I don't believe in the kind of love that can be sliced and passed around, the kind of love that undermines and destroys while it pretends to caress.

Celibacy is not the absence of a passion; it is rather the intensity of a passion.

Le dijo que el amor era un sentimiento contra natura, que condenaba a dos desconocidos a una dependencia mezquina e insalubre, tanto más efímera cuanto más intensa.

Nu trecea o clip? f?r? s? se gândeasc? la ea, tot ce mânca ÅŸi bea avea gustul ei, viaÅ£a era ea, la orice or? ÅŸi pretutindeni, cum numai Domnul avea dreptul ÅŸi puterea de a fi ÅŸi c? bucuria suprem? a sufletului s?u ar fi s? moar? împreun? cu ea.

Rapid movement was a relief in the midst of so much feeling.

They want it all - all As, all wins by 20, and want the highest GPA. Don't coach at Kentucky if you can't accept that.

Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.