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Quotes About Intensity

I learned a long time ago in the outpatient clinic to make no distinction –as some condescending doctors still do –between 'real' or 'psychological' pain. All pain is produced in the brain, and the only way pain can vary, other than in its intensity, is how it is best treated, or more particularly in my clinic, whether surgery might help or not.
~ Henry Marsh
Actors die so loud.
~ Henry Miller
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
~ Henry Rollins
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
~ Henry Rollins
I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.
~ Henry Rollins
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
~ Henry Rollins
I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.
~ Henry Rollins
He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
~ Henry Rollins
I think to myself: I don't want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage
~ Henry Rollins
She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don't want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle
~ Henry Rollins
My love runs deeper than the wounds I inflict upon myself, deeper than the sweat that pours from my body. My love runs deeper than the tears that roll down my face. My hate runs deeper than the wounds I inflict upon myself, deeper than the sweat that pours from my body. My hate runs deeper than the tears that roll down my face.
~ Henry Rollins
Her mouth is a soft explosion of roses A burst of raw animal definition For a few moments I was mortal
~ Henry Rollins
I will never be able to pound words into lines To match the velocity of your presence
~ Henry Rollins
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence, and not for one second losing sight of her, though he did not look at her. He felt as though the sun were coming near him.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But the more intensely he thought, the clearer it became to him that it was indubitably so, that in reality, looking upon life, he had forgotten one little fact—that death will come, and all ends; that nothing was even worth beginning, and that there was no helping it anyway. Yes, it was awful, but it was so.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did before.
~ Leo Tolstoy
the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire
~ Leo Tolstoy
but she has such wonderful depth of feeling.
~ Leo Tolstoy
As often happens with passionate people, he was mastered by anger but was still seeking an object on which to vent it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
No te equivocas, estaba desesperada y no puedo dejar de estarlo. Mientras te escucho pienso en él. Lo amo, soy su amante. No te puedo soportar, te tengo miedo y te odio… Puedes hacer conmigo lo que quieras.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Like a wounded animal at bay watching the dogs and the hunt close in, Natasha looked from one to the other.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Dieu, quelle virulente sortie!
~ Leo Tolstoy
True preaching is the sweating of blood. —DR. JOSEPH PARKER
~ Leonard Ravenhill