Quotes About Intensity

Jason, stop this," she pleaded. "You don't want to kiss me. You don't even like me more than a little when you aren't foxed" A harsh laugh escaped him. "I like you too damned much!" he whispered bitterly, then pulled her head down and captured her lips in a demaning, scalding kiss that took everything and give nothing in return.

What is it about you that demolishes my mind?

I shoved back my chair and raced around the table, ready to destroy him. "Grandma . . ." Fudge cried. "Heeelp . . . !

The atmosphere's warm and fervid. The scent of it wafts up in dense waves... sweat laced with perfume like smoke from an oven of burning human lusts.

In any dispute, the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue. That is why academic politics are so bitter.

He's splitting me open, I thought. He'll break me and then I'll die.

Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.

Perfection lies in intensity, and what is most intense cannot be endured long.

Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who knew the endless nights of harrowing concern for others have longed for it. The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die." (The Faith of a Heretic)

There is economy in this. For the attempt to see all things freshly and in detail, rather than as types and generalities, is exhausting, and among busy affairs practically out of the question. In

The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

Let's say that the average age in the audience is twenty-five years. Six hundred times twenty-five equals fifteen thousand years of human experience assembled in that darkness—well over twice the length of recorded human history of hopes, dreams, disappointments, exultation, tragedy. All focused on the same series of images and sounds, all brought there by the urge, however inchoate, to open up and experience as intensely as possible something beyond their ordinary lives.

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

La pasión no es negociable.

imposible aprender a quererte a ti mismo si no aceptas vivir intensamente.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity.

He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes!

It was a fiery spirit he called "kill-devil.

In their ambivalent attitude to violence, the Hindus are no different from the rest of us, but they are perhaps unique in the intensity of their ongoing debate about it.

The pain hits me in thick black waves. I scream loud enough to wake the dead... only it doesn't.

I meant lucky to have someone who loved him so much that he would go to such lengths to ensure he would never have another mate." Kris's chin nearly touched his chest and his lovely brown eyes closed. "To be loved that much—wow.

Something touched my shoulder. I started to flinch. Stopped myself. The offer was too good. My cock throbbed in response.

Sexy with a capital SEX.