Quotes About Intensity

As soon as you add an intensifier, you're turning an all-or-none dichotomy into a graduated scale.

Weber's Law: for an increase in intensity to be noticeable, it must be a constant proportion of the existing intensity.

This is the very ecstasy of love.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.

For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

I love you so much that it feels like the universe will explode, for as long as it takes for the oceans to dry up, so much that I don't care if my soul burns to ashes.

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

I love you more than I think I should.

You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

I love you as one loves certain dark things.