Quotes About Intensity

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

Only to themselves are the passionate hot. To the objects of their passion they are cold. What Yeats knew. They eradicate what they notice, as the thumb hard-crams the clay impressionable under it, to lie flat, apt to the shape their cold-steel scribes may cut or spurn it to. Yet they know passion must drown to ripen sweet & give fair play to the whole life hot passion speeds us from.

The sheer intensity of a child's feelings means they cannot be repressed without severe consequences. The thicker the prison wall grow, says Miller, the more future emotional development is impeded. When that wall is especially impenetrable, and the pain behind it is overwhelming, cutting is the strategy some use to try to break through and achieve some sense of control.

In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

If I were a food, I'd be a Chili because you know.. I'm hot.

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

For friendship I have nobody else except the volcano.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.

Nunca había sido tan plenamente feliz como en ese momento, pero tenía la hiriente sensación de que nunca más volvería a serlo, por lo menos en ese grado, con esa intensidad.

No me atrevo a juzgarte. Se que cuando uno ve las cosas desde fuera, cuando uno no se siente complicado en ellas, es muy fácil proclamar que es lo malo y que es lo bueno. Pero cuando uno esta metido hasta el pescuezo en el problema (y yo he estado muchas veces así), las cosas cambian, la intensidad es otra, aparecen hondas convicciones, inevitables sacrificios y renunciamientos que pueden parecer inexplicables para el que solo observa.

Yo me enamoré de sus demonios, ella de mi oscuridad. Éramos el infierno perfecto