Quotes About Intensity

Having read Lermontov and other Russians, and having stayed up until four in the morning, Alessandro found himself making declarations such as, All I desire is one night with you, after which I will quickly cause myself to be disemboweled.

I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old;

She is so beautiful. My Rose. Finer than sculpture, softer than sand. Rose, I'm kissing you now. Oh God, I have to kiss her. I will die if I don't kiss her, I know that now. It is a fact. I will die. It will kill me.

Line cooks are the heroes.

Pretty much mention oxtail, and ragù, and I'm ready to slit somebody's throat for a bite.

If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulties in procuring its satisfaction.

All right,' said Moreland, 'love, then. Is it better to love somebody and not have them, or have somebody and not love them? I mean from the point of view of action – living intensely. Does action consist in having or loving? In having – naturally – it might first appear. Loving is just emotion, not action at all. But is that correct? I'm not sure.

If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulty in procuring its satisfaction.

Emotional intensity seemed to meet and mingle with an air of indifference, even of cruelty within these ancient walls. Youth and Time here had made, as it were, some compromise.

Whatever you focus on—whatever you tune in to—you will feel more intensely. So if you don't like what you're doing, maybe it's time to change the channel.

any time we're in an intense emotional state, when we're feeling strong sensations of pain or pleasure, anything unique that occurs consistently will become neurologically linked.

She looked up into his face, and he could see that she was full of passion, and by no means in a mood to submit to his reproaches. She, too, could frown, and was frowning now.

Cuando un hombre desea utilizar palabras ardientes, debe usarlas mientras siguen en llamas.

A host of scorpions crawl out from under the wetnurse's dress and start swarming in her vagina which swells and splits, becomes transparent and shimmers like the sun

The extreme point of mysticism, I hold it now in the real and in my body, like a toilet broom.

I would have drawn and quartered him, and I hope you do, said Richard, his eyes sparkling.

Love hate-are they really that different?

People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much.

People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love in a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.

We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. It was almost a sport. We tore through sobriety together, drink by drink, until we occupied a separate reality from the rest of the world.

She had her own pain. She had her own reasons. That was something I never saw clearly before motherhood flashed in front of my eyes, impairing and intensifying my vision. Nothing has looked entirely the same since.

We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol.

They who love in excess also hate in excess.

It's time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn't count for shit!