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Quotes About Intensity

What I was seeking, with resolute determination, was to live more intensely my own life, as against what I knew would be the adverse judgment of the world. It was in the most real seasons that the Real Presence came, and I was aware that I was immersed in the infinite ocean of God.
~ William James
His fists raised, his cheeks flushed with rage, his whole body trembling, the man stood there in front of me, beside himself with fury and having lost all self-control. After each outburst Hitler would stride up and down the carpet edge, then suddenly stop immediately before me and hurl his next accusation in my face. He was almost screaming, his eyes seemed to pop out of his head and the veins stood out in his temples.
~ William L. Shirer
shit, shit, shit.
~ China Mieville
No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Love comes like lightning , and disappears the same way.. If you are lucky it strickes you right..
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Love comes like lightning , and disappears the same way.. If you are lucky it strikes you right..
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It felt as though someone had reached into him and was wresting out his heart. In later life his sorrows would be deep-drawn and bone-aching sad, but never like this. Perhaps only the young can feel such exquisitely intense pain.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
only towards one man can I feel that wrenching whirlwind emotion, soaring to heaven, flung down to hell, both at once.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I am...sad and angry. I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.
~ Chris Adrian
Come to Me and we will blow the world back together WITH INCREDIBLE NOISE AND FURY.
~ Chris Cleave
With love, one could glow. One did not need the intense flame after all. Now
~ Chris Cleave
I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.
~ Chris Crutcher
You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
~ Chris Crutcher
Jackson raised his cane to strike him as he was tackled to the ground.* "The old General sprung at him like a tiger," Tyler recalled, "and manifested as much fearlessness as one could possibly have done.
~ Chris DeRose
Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.
~ Chris Kraus
When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.
~ Chris Kraus
There's a lot of madness in New Zealand because it's a mean and isolated little country. Anyone who feels too much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.
~ Chris Kraus
She hardly slept or ate, she forgot to comb her hair. The more she studied, the harder it became to speak or know anything with certainty. People were afraid of her; she forgot how to teach her classes. She became that word that people use to render difficult or driven women weightless: Gabi Teisch was "quirky.
~ Chris Kraus
Cuando vives con tanta intensidad en la cabeza, al final no hay diferencia entre lo que imaginas y lo que ocurre de veras.
~ Chris Kraus
Time's an unsealed envelope and crime's a metaphor for anguish, private symphonies of intensity exploding in the dark.
~ Chris Kraus
I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.
~ Chris Lynch
Jake wasn't about to be seduced like some schoolgirl. Not by a man who went by the unlikely name of Tornado, not by anyone. He stood as firmly as he could in the mud and tore his mouth from the kiss, staring into too dark eyes. As his hands made their way into Tor's wet jeans he said, "This doesn't mean I like you, you know.
~ Chris Owen
Spit and blood!
~ Chris Wooding
The cries from within the apartment were also unnaturally intensified, seeming to bore their way into the soft tissue of his hypersensitive brain, like hungry maggots.
~ Christa Faust