Quotes About Intensity

It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between

if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

Survivors are often good at both resolving and generating crisis. While this capacity to handle crisis can make you a good emergency room worker or ambulance driver, it can also be a way for you to keep yourself from feeling. If you are addicted to intensity and drama...you may be running from yourself.

He stared me at with his deep midnight eyes. He leaned toward me. And he kissed me. With passion. He kissed me! He finally kissed me! Right there in front of Bela Lugosi!

You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.

How many times would I damn myself for you? Ask me that." "How many?" she said faintly, her eyes searching his face. She stopped breathing to hear his answer. "Till the gates of hell close," he said flatly.

He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes, and their large noses, and their ungainly limbs.

To have him walk toward her with that intent look on his face, as if nothing in the world could satisfy him but her. Damn

It was awful, this love.

I don't just want to kiss you, Stella. I want to ravish you.

But thinking about Shakespeare didn't really help. Everyone was so melodramatic in the old days.

Yes." Ridiculous twaddle flooded his mind. Your eyes looked like forget-me-nots. I want to kiss you. I want to tear off your clothing. I want to marry you. You are my duchess.

He didn't adore Stella. He craved her, like water in a desert.

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

Great joys,why do they bring us sadness? Because there remains from these excesses only a feeling of irrevocable loss and desertion which reaches a high degree of negative intensity. At such moments, instead of a gain, one keenly feels loss. sadness accompanies all those events in which life expends itself. its intensity is equal to its loss. Thus death causes the greatest sadness.

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

A fi plin de tine insuti nu in sens de orgoliu ci de bogatie a fi chinuit de o infinitate interna si de o tensiune extrema inseamna a trai cu atata intensitate incat simti cum mori din cauza vietii.

Iti trebuie o pasiune mare pana la imbecilitate pentru a putea iubi o singura femeie.

At the climax of failure, at the moment when shame is about to do us in, suddenly we are swept away by a frenzy of pride which lasts only long enough to drain us, to leave us without energy, to lower, with our powers, the intensity of our shame.

Micsorarea luciditatii este un semn de vitalitate a dragostei.

Tot ce este formulat, este ca intensitate degradat.