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Quotes About Intensity

What you love too violently finishes by killing you.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Quello che si ama con violenza finisce sempre per uccidere. Ma come spiegare ciò che mi succede? Come raccontare in modo da farmi capire? Non lo so, non lo so più, so soltanto che è così – ecco tutto.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Se simÈ›ea prins? ca un animal în lanÈ›, aruncat? cu mâinile legate înaintea acestui b?rbat care o învinsese, o cucerise numai prin mustaÈ›a È™i prin str?lucirea ochilor s?i.
~ Guy de Maupassant
And I can remember a tear running down my frozen cheek—a tear neither of pain nor of joy but of emotion created by intense experience.
~ Guy Sajer
La emoción más antigua y más intensa de la humanidad es el miedo, y el más antiguo y más intenso de los miedos es el miedo a lo desconocido
~ H. P. Lovecraft
All the terror I had dimly felt before rushed upon me actively and vividly, and I knew that I loathed the ancient and abhorrent creature so near me with an infinite intensity.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
und der ganze Erdball würde durch eine Fackel aus Ekstase und Freiheit in Flammen gesetzt.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
As a Newbody, however, I began to like the pornographic circus of rough sex; the stuff that resembled some of the modern dance I had seen, animalistic, without talk. I begged to be turned into meat, held down, tied, blindfolded, slapped, pulled and strangled, entirely merged in the physical, all my swirling selves sucked into orgasm.
~ Hanif Kureishi
I love the razor's edge. I want to be cut open. My terror is of a bourgeois, ordinary life. I can't bear the everyday constraint. I believe that ordinariness would put out my spark, such as it is.
~ Hanif Kureishi
No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narrated story.
~ Hannah Arendt
Ninguna filosofía, análisis o aforismo, por profundo que sea, puede compararse en intensidad y riqueza de significado con una historia bien narrada.
~ Hannah Arendt
Wesel devoted these months to assembling a Satan's brood of dedicated killers and systematically training them to a supreme pitch of efficiency. … The murderous intensity common to all its members could only have been generated by the interaction of several factors, among them a power-crazed and inflexible determination to destroy at the bidding of a higher authority.
~ Hans Hellmut Kirst
What we so admire and call single minded dedication was really obsessive self-involvement. What in that exactly is admirable?
~ Harlan Coben
There are those rare moments in life- when you feel that jolt and it feels great and it hurts like hell, but you're feeling, really feeling and suddenly colors seem brighter and sounds have more clarity and foods taste better and you never, not even for a minute, stop thinking about him and you know, just know that he is feeling exactly the same way about you
~ Harlan Coben
I turned to Otto. "Why the hell did you hit him like that?" Otto looked back at me with eyes that sent a chill straight through my heart. They were lifeless eyes, not the slightest hint of light behind them. It was as though I were looking into the eyes of an inanimate object—the eyes of an end table, maybe, or a cardboard box. From
~ Harlan Coben
Time was doing the in 'n' out thing. Probably a second, maybe two, had passed since Karen's execution. That was all. And now, with no time to think or plan, I was nearly on him. But
~ Harlan Coben
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
~ Vanilla Ice
I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
~ Omar Sharif
Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
~ Ben Shahn
We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.
~ Jaromir Jagr
It's one of those things: I would 100 percent pancake a guy and steal his soul over scoring a touchdown.
~ George Kittle
Every time I touched Ronda, connected a punch, I wanted more and more. That's why the fight was so fast. Every time I connected, I felt that she couldn't take it, so I threw more and only stopped when it was over. But it was good.
~ Amanda Nunes
Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
Dad was a tough cookie. He expected a lot from people when they were employed to do a job. If they don't do it properly there's not much time for pampering. He came from making films like 'Deliverance' and 'Point Blank.' He was renowned for taking on tough movies. He revels in that kind of thing and people feed off that enthusiasm.
~ Charley Boorman