Quotes About Intensity

Es demasiado odio junto para que sea verdadero.

Hubo un tiempo, asimismo, en que me creí capaz de sufrir y disfrutar una de esas pasiones sobrecogedoras que justifican una existencia.

De pronto tuve conciencia de que ese momento, de que esa rebanada de cotidianidad, era el grado máximo de bienestar, era la Dicha. 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

Jealousy was not a green-eyed monster, she thought. It was red in tooth and claw, with glaring, fiery eyes. Her

The fire that stirs about her, when she stirs, Burns but more clearly. O she had not these ways When all the wild summer was in her gaze. —WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

But I didn't cry. I sat stiller than I'd ever sat, just kind of falling in on myself, getting denser and smaller, and all the while I screamed. Not with my vocal chords, nothing so pure and ordinary as that. My mouth didn't move, but I screamed with my whole body, my hair, my fingers, the back of my neck, the pit of my stomach, the pores of my skin. I screamed until I didn't have any voice left, until I was empty, and then I floated, shivering, in an ice-cold ocean of silence.

since she and Marcus and her mother left, she's been close to obsessed with wanting

She could imagine sustaining certain emotions at that pitch for that long—love absolutely, grief probably, guilt maybe—but hatred was exhausting and gave so little back.

contó Lucía a la policía fue que había estado preparando esa muerte durante diez años. "Antes no podía matarla porque estaba débil. Pero en estos diez años, desde el día de mi aborto hasta hoy, me fui entrenando y poniendo fuerte para matar a mamá. Es raro, pero la verdad es que yo no podía vivir si ella también estaba viva".

I have hunted for less. I have killed for less. But never with as much pleasure.

I was security. A good right hook. A thousand yard stare.

I met his gaze, but nothing else needed to be said. We both knew we were fucked.

I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

For Chandler it was all or nothing. Or, to hear one of his characters say it, "I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

Praying through is all about intensity. It's not quantitative; it's qualitative. Drawing prayer circles involves more than words; it's gut-wrenching groans and heartbreaking tears. Praying through doesn't just bend God's ear; it touches the heart of your heavenly Father.

I am going to pull the music from your mouth and furthermore I'll take the orange aching light that splits your ribs when I or any beautiful things come at you.

I keep going on about it, but musicians are a unique sort. The stage is everything to them – there's nothing outside of it. It's as if they're still performing in a school play and their mam's out in the audience and they're busting a gut to upstage every other fucker around them. I've got to keep an eye on this all the time.

But I am bored by Casanovas, inveterate travelers, nature lovers, and the drug-obsessed, as they speak from the narrowness of their exhaustive experience of one thing.

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.

living con smania,

Do you do everything with such intensity?" She smiled, cocked her head, and said, "Well, of course. If you're going to do something, don't be half-assed about it.

And then we were swept up, just like the La Scala performers say, playing con smania, with passion.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.