Quotes About Intensity

Could one think so intensely of someone and not be visited?

And what an intense heavenly blue the sea is, not a dark blue at all, but like a cauldron of light.

I love you, I want you, I'd die for you —

Charles, don't destroy yourself, said James. Why are you always so intent on breaking everything that surrounds and supports you?

But I wanted to make what was terrible so much worse so as to be sure that it was fatal; like Hartley protecting herself by thinking I must hate her.

But I have, I suppose, become through the power of love, awful, relentless.

Mary held her heart, contracted into a point of agony.

The conversation in the Old Brompton Road was more like an experience of the inferno, but lovers are accustomed to fire.

But her heart was hurting her with its violence.

My first love, and also my only love. All the best, even Clement, have been shadows by comparison. The necessity of this seems, in my own case, so great that I find it hard to imagine that it is not so with everyone.

She's so fucking beautiful it don't bear thinking about. I could hardly keep my eyes on the fucking road. I sort of felt like I was wasting time whenever I wasn't looking at her face.

He told her: - I'm gaunnae fuck you like you've never been fucked in your life. He was right. She'd never been fucked that badly, either before or since.

No fuckin way: cunt dies when ah fuckin well say eh dies. (Jim Frances Begbie as he is trying to resuscitate a friend who's having a stroke.)

Paranoia hit him. Waves of fear shuddered through his body. The stakes were high, the highest ever.

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

Entiende en robots como si fuesen sus hermanos. Quizá sea la consecuencia de odiar a los seres humanos con la misma intensidad.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

Zacharie did not learn of the sorrow his wife was living becasue she was careful to hide it. Tete kept that first love, the stromngest in her life, a secret. She mentioned it only rarely because she could not offer Zacharie a passion of the same intensity; the relationship they shared was genntle and free of urgency.

Caminaba erguido y con el pecho adelante, dispuesto al combate, hablaba con voz de actor y elocuencia de iluminado, era controlado en los gestos, rápido de pensamiento e irreductible en sus convicciones fundamentales

A los ocho años se había enamorado de Ichimei con la intensidad de los amores de la infancia y de Nathaniel con el amor sereno de la vejez.

At the age of twenty-two, suspecting their time was limited, Ichimei and she had gorged on love to enjoy it to the full, but the more they tried to exhaust it, the wilder their desire became, and whoever says that every flame must sooner or later be extinguished is wrong, because there are passions that blaze on until destiny destroys them with a swipe of its paw, and even then hot embers remain that need only a breath of oxygen to be rekindled.

he came to see me whenever he needed to flee a disaster related to women or money. His presence was a typhoon that completely upset my well-regulated existence and the peace of mind that I felt in his absence.

Mario Vargas Llosa's

Inside I carried a burning restlessness.