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Quotes About Intensity

Aber gewiß. Zum Hasse nicht, zur Liebe bin ich.
~ Sophocles
It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion
~ Soren Kierkegaard
With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I've been within an inch of my life.
~ Gary Lutz
In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.
~ Haruki Murakami
Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
~ Henry Rollins
You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.
~ Joan Van Ark
Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.
~ Drew Busby
There are a ton of medical dramas out there dealing with life and death.
~ Erica Durance
You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.
~ Michael Hastings
Being crazy doesn't mean being mentally challenged. Maybe it just means being you...amplified a 100 times over.
~ Mamur Mustapha
I bleed passion. I'm not entirely sure what this means but I'm greedy over the words. They're so full of life. And I really need some life to balance out the desperate allure of the dark.
~ Marley Jacobs, Goodnight, Nic
It brings me back to the moment, and I want to livethe moment with everything I've got.
~ Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before
Even in silence a heart can scream.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Write as though your life depended on it.
~ Jill Telford
Either give it your all or don't even try!
~ Avijeet Das
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
~ Neil Young
When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.
~ Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
I want something new. I want something I've never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.
~ Michael Soll, Scorched
Other labs have extended his work, finding that women recall more emotional autobiographical events, more rapidly and with greater intensity, than men do. Women consistently report more vivid memories for emotionally important events such as a recent argument, a first date, or a vacation.
~ John Medina
Dark with excessive bright.
~ John Milton
I love you? Yes, I love you. Like saying I have cancer.
~ John O'Hara
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
~ John O'Donohue
George Devine's disapproval of Fry, Ustinov and John Whiting was almost startling in its bitterness: 'They're all absolute shit.' It was a little breathtaking. I was only accustomed to this kind of throw-away vehemence from myself.
~ John Osborne