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Quotes About Intensity

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
~ August Strindberg
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
~ Unknown
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
~ Henry Brooks Adams
Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Catherine II of Russia
~ Unknown
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If hate is such a strong word, then why do wetoss around love like it's nothing?
~ Anonymous
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
~ Unknown
One weakness is enough, and love is the deadliest.
~ Bertolt Brecht
My hopes are so high, that your kiss might kill me. So won't you kill me, so I die happy. My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury, Or wear as jewelery, whichever you prefer.
~ Dashboard Confessional
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.
~ Emily Bronte
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder
~ Octave Mirbeau
I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.
~ Unknown
There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover
~ Cyril Connolly
Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Is there a speed limit on love?
~ Loesje
The heart that can no longer love passionately, must with fury hate
~ Jean Baptiste Racine
One is very crazy when in love.
~ Sigmund Freud
Love is a kind of warfare.
~ Ovid
Love that is not madness is not love.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.
~ Abraham Cowley
Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just drowns you all together.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld