Quotes About Intensity

What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is strong and unified, effective and unique. Immortality knows nothing of morality or immorality, of good or evil; it measures only work and strength; it demands from a man not purity but unity. Here, morality is nothing; intensity, all.

Perhaps only those who are strangers to passion know such sudden outbursts of emotion in their few passionate moments, moments of emotion like an avalanche or a hurricane; whole years fall from one's own breast with the fury of powers left unused.

O anda sana â??k olmuÅŸtum. Biliyorum çevrendeki kad?nlar sana, ??mart?lm?? olan sana bu sözcükleri s?kça söylemiÅŸtir. Fakat inan bana hiç kimse seni benim o zamanlar olduÄŸum ve hep öyle kald???m halimle ve hep seveceÄŸim ÅŸekilde, köle gibi, sad?k bir köpek gibi, kol kanat gererek sevmemiÅŸtir.

He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with such profound absorption that ever since I first watched him the reading of ordinary mortals seemed a pastime.

bir tel gibi gergindim ve varl???n?n ona her dokunu?uyla t?nl?yordum.

Het ligt niet in de menselijke aard alleen op herinneringen te teren, en zoals planten en welk schepsel dan ook voedsel uit de aarde en steeds nieuw gefilterd licht uit de hemel nodig hebben, zodat hun kleuren niet verbleken en de bloemkelken niet verwelkt hun bladeren verliezen, zo hebben ook dromen, ook dromen die schijnbaar niet van deze aarde zijn, voedsel nodig van het zinnelijke, ondersteund door tederheid en beelden, anders stolt hun bloed en de intensiteit van hun licht verbleekt.

içi soÄŸuk olan her insan gibi, kendisi yanmadan tutku ateÅŸiyle sar?lm?? olmaktan hoÅŸlan?yordu.

The strongest man is always the man of one idea. Devoting to it all his energy, his will, his intelligence, his nervous tension, he often becomes irresistible. Mary Baker was one of these exemplars among monomaniacs, for from 1862 onwards she possessed, or rather was possessed by, one idea and one only.

Sessizlik keskin bir ç??l?kt?, iÅŸitilmemiÅŸ ç??l?klarla doluydu...

Benim böyle bir heyecana kap?lmam, bu ateÅŸi hissetmem, hararetimin bu kadar yükselmesi, elimde olmadan sesimin deÄŸiÅŸmesi için ne olmas? gerekirdi acaba?

have heard, again, from other sources — you may laugh, but it is always madness that first gives one an insight into the intensity of a passion — that he has promised vast sums in the way of donations both to the synagogue and to the parish priest in the event of his child's recovery.

Hiç bilmediÄŸim bir uçurumun içine düÅŸtüm, yine de o bir saatin içinde sizin aran?zda geçirdiÄŸim kaskat? y?llardan çok daha canl? hissettim kendimi.

Después comprendí que esa mirada que atrae, que te envuelve y te desnuda a la vez, esa mirada de seductor consumado, era tu modo de mirar a todas las mujeres que se cruzaban en tu camino, a cualquier vendedora que te atendía, a cualquier criada que te abría la puerta. No eres consciente de la fuerza de esa mirada que tu ternura hacia las mujeres hace parecer más dulce y afectuosa en su insistencia.

Monomaniacs of any kind, those people fixated by a single idea, have been a source of fascination for me my whole life, for the more a man limits his field of vision, the closer he is, conversely, to the infinite; those very people who seem so remote from the world construct with their own unique material, termite-like, a remarkable and completely unique shorthand for the world itself.

Todo lo que de extraordinario y más poderodo se produce en nuestra existencia se logra sólo a través de una monomanía sublime, sagradamente emparentada con la locura

I was seeing a human being overflowing with emotion, forcing his passion into his fingertips lest it tear him apart.

I giorni solenni dell'esistenza hanno in sé una luminosità più intensa di quelli consueti.

sie fühlte sich wehrlos seinem Spiel gegenüber, und so unsäglich

NeboÃ…Â¥ on ?etl, jako se jiní modlí, jako hrá?i hrají a opilí tupÄ› zírají do prázdna, ?etl tak dojemnÄ› pohroužen, že vÅ¡echno ?tení ostatních lidí mi od té doby vždycky pÃ…â"¢ipadalo profánní.

La música me iba envolviendo de inquietud, mi nerviosismo era cada vez más apasionado, me tuve que poner en tensión para contenerme con todas mis fuerzas, hasta tal punto era intenso el afán de mis labios por acercarse a tu mano. (...) Era incapaz de soportar tenerte tan cerca y tan lejos a la vez, a mi lado en la penumbra.

For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich, emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with a wild poetry, that they read all kinds of meanings into comparatively simple actions, especially the actions of other people, who do not live intensely and with a wild poetry.

Hetty was eating, rather than reading, large slabs of a very thin book of contemporary verse each page having a thick wodge of print, without capital letters, starting at the top and running nearly to the bottom. Her eyes were very close to the book and she frowned with concentration.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.