Quotes About Intensity

Amor u obsesión, lo que había tras sus sentimientos era tan fuerte que prefería destruirla a verla con otro

Gods of fucking algebra!

Play the game without mercy, play to win

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence? I try to smile. What's the difference, really.

because there is nothing so arousing as fear and submission and the threat of violence.

asymmetric intensity of the motives to avoid losses and to achieve gains shows up almost everywhere.

The automatic processes of the mental shotgun and intensity matching often make available one or more answers to easy questions that could be mapped onto the target question.

We have strong preferences about the duration of our experiences of pain and pleasure. We want pain to be brief and pleasure to last. But our memory, a function of System 1, has evolved to represent the most intense moment of an episode of pain or pleasure (the peak) and the feelings when the episode was at its end. A memory that neglects duration will not serve our preference for long pleasure and short pains.

Here we encounter a new aptitude of System 1. An underlying scale of intensity allows matching across diverse dimensions. If crimes were colors, murder would be a deeper shade of red than theft. If crimes were expressed as music, mass murder would be played fortissimo while accumulating unpaid parking tickets would be a faint pianissimo.

The issue becomes politically important because it is on everyone's mind, and the response of the political system is guided by the intensity of public sentiment. The availability cascade has now reset priorities. Other risks, and other ways that resources could be applied for the public good, all have faded into the background.

Sen mä vaan sanon, että jollei meikä olis näin rauhallinen tyyppi, niin siis joskus tosissaan pumppu haulikko, helvetti irti, niska laukaus ja murha poltto, ja täyttä häkää sittekki.

What if desire were to desire something other than objects?" the Tantric masters then wondered. If desire were simply the incandescence that gives us the feeling of being alive, were intensity, were the tremoring vibration that carries us, then it would be absurd to allow it to be consumed by objects and to lose it once we possess the object or realize we cannot attain it.

It was mad and it was beautiful.

Barak, the Hebrew word for lightning

This must always be admitted of us—for desperate dash and cruelty we were unbettered men.

Tasting scotch was an intense experience; it didn't have the lovely layering of wines

Good or bad, everything smelled more in the South. Inside

Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.)

An artist is someone who sees and feels realty very intensely. Creativity doesn't mean just making things up out of thin air. It means seeing and feeling the world so vividly that you can put together connections and patterns that help to explain reality. It means you see the beauty in the world rather than trying to hide from it.

Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

If love and hate aren't true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain—if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.