Quotes About Intensity

If she could breathe then it could be heard, but she was breathless.

What she felt, turning into the driveway, was a fury and pain so deep that she would never have believed a person could feel it and still remain alive.

He knew then how the dull flesh of man can be like fire

Golf is hockey at the halt.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

Mais, vrai, j'ai trop pleuré ! Les Aubes sont navrantes. Toute lune est atroce et tout soliel amer: L'âcre amour m'a gonflé de torpeurs enivrantes. Ô que ma quille éclate ! Ô que j'aille à la mer!

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Is it possible to become ecstatic amid destruction, rejuvenate oneself through cruelty?

Uyan?k geçen geceler I I??kl? bir dinleniÅŸ bu, ne hararet ne bitkinlik, yata??n üzerinde veya çay?rlar?n üstünde. Dost bu, ne ateÅŸli ne zay?f. Dost. Sevgili bu, ne ac? veren ne ac? çeken. Sevgili. Hiç aranmam?? hava ve dünya. Hayat. -Demek bu muydu? -Ve rüya ÅŸiddetleniyor

Engoli uma notável poção de veneno - Três vezes seja bendita esta riquíssima ideia! - As entranhas ardem-me. A violência da peçonha galvaniza-me os membros, desfigura-me, atira-me por terra. Morro de sede, sufoco, não posso gritar. É o inferno, a pena capital. Vede como as chamas cobrem tudo! Ardo bastante bem.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief.

Sus ojos eran la guerra.

Juro a vuestras mercedes que no lograba odiarla. Por el contrario, la certeza de que tenía parte en mi desgracia dejábame un regusto agridulce, que intensificaba el hechizo de su recuerdo. Era malvada –y aún lo fue más con el tiempo, voto a Cristo– pero era bellísima. Y justo esa connivencia de maldad y de belleza, tan ligadas una a otra, me causaba una fascinación intensa, un doloroso placer al sufrir trabajos y penar por su causa.

Y lo gritan, y lo dicen, y lo murmuran borrachos de pólvora, espantados tanto del enemigo como de sí mismos, mientras empujan los cañones, meten las balas y disparan una y otra vez, ciegos, ensordecidos, desesperados ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte, amén, con la certeza súbita de que sólo el más salvaje, el más cruel, el que cargue y dispare y blasfeme y rece con mayor rapidez y eficacia, podrá sobrevivir a la jornada.

Excesivo como casi todo en él: su cólera y sus buenos humores

El teatro ya no es sólo una comunicación, como la novela o como la poesía, que se recibe asordinadamente y que puede perderse, ni tampoco una simple transmisión de un mensaje por la voz de un orador o de un jugar, que tiene una sola intensidad, una sola nota y una sola vía, sino que, además de todo esto, es el prodigioso encuentro de dos presencias...

I marvelled at the intense beauty of this human relationship that was born out of so much love and was destined, perhaps inevitably, to end in a tragedy of such terrible proportions.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

Grab your parachute because this woman will fly you to the peaks of ecstasy and drive you crazy enough to make you jump off.

Alekk turned back to me. There was a hint of softness in his eyes, but as he gripped my wrist it disappeared.

Im so affected, that even my lungs are affected.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.