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Quotes About Intensity

You break my heart or hers, and I'll cut yours out.
~ Unknown
Her mind raced with millions of violent and spectacular thoughts and ideas and in the centre of herself, she stored a passion which might terrify people if they suspected it.
~ Margaret Forster
But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope.
~ Margaret Fuller
Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.
~ Margaret George
Te iubesc, Guido. Te iubesc, întotdeauna dup? o muie. Era una din sentin?ele lui Knut.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
I said he kissed me. Really kissed me. It rocked me to my soul. It was brutal. It was brilliant. It was horrible. I thought I was going to die.
~ Margaret Way
It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.
~ Margaret Way
You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.
~ Margaret Way
Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.
~ Margaret Way
Really, the insufferable conceit of the man. How dared he have the unutterable gall to know how her knees weakened at the sight of him, how she felt full of life and spirit when he was with her, how his very touch sent fire coursing through her veins in a way she hadn't known existed outside the pages of lending-library novels!
~ Unknown
Only rebellion flashes like lightning.
~ Marge Piercy
Avril raised his fine head. 'Yes,' he said. 'My poor Margaret.' His face changed only for an instant. The grief upon it appeared and passed like the shadow of a leaf in the wind, but its intensity was so great that Luke, who was still a young man, was dismayed to learn that it could exist.
~ Margery Allingham
The intensities of friendship suit you better.
~ Margo Jefferson
All the cells in my body seemed to race and freeze at the same time.
~ Unknown
This was a crush? It felt like gum stuck in my throat. Gum stuck in my heart. Mucking everything up. Crush . It felt crushing. Not in a good way. In an eating-too-much cookie-dough-and-getting-a-stomachache way. Too overwhelming.
~ Unknown
Can we cut the Zen crap for a moment?" I ask. "I'm trying to beat this bag to a pulp.
~ Mari Mancusi
And there's the loudest sound I've ever heard and the brightest white I've ever seen, and I'm made of it, I'm- I'm made of light I'm made of heat And I'm flying
~ Unknown
Violent love eats up what it does love, and it is mere appetite. I scribbled on the bottom of this before sending it back: I would sooner cut my own flesh than do you a hurt. You should not have tried to get between us! But only come to see me, and another time I will stand and let me beat to a mummy.
~ Maria McCann
Acts committed in the heat of passion as much as acts of heartfelt compassion have the power to disenchant
~ Maria Tatar
Lehet, hogy valaha szebb n?re bukkansz nálam – bár hajdan azt hajtogattad, én se vagyok éppen rút! –, de senki szívében nem találsz majd akkora szenvedélyt, mint az enyémben. Azt hiszed, számít más? Semmi, csak ez.
~ Unknown
Nem tagadom, amíg boldogított szerelmed, lélegzet-elállító gyönyör?ség jutott osztályrészemül, de most sosem ismert kínokkal fizetek meg értük, s ami hömpölyg? indulatot csak felkorbácsoltál szívemben, az mind túlcsap minden ismert mértéken és határon.
~ Unknown
Too strong of a light can be deadly to the one used to read by candlelight.
~ Unknown
I burned too bright. I saw too much.
~ Unknown
So he who strongly feels, behaves.
~ Marianne Moore