Quotes About Intensity

Excessively passionate characters have a tendency to behave poorly.

One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.

I wanted once in my lifetime to know that great savage joy, no matter how immense the suffering that might ensue.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity.

Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Love is a kind of warfare.

Love is the force that leaves you colorless

The interest of a parent in the life of his child has all the requisite specificity and intensity that could possibly be required of a "case" or "controversy" under Article III.

chocolate brown eyes. And attitude—tons of it.

Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows.

On my last birthday I was ninety-three years old. That is not young, of course. In fact, it is older than ninety. But age is a relative matter. If you continue to work and to absorb the beauty in the world about you, you find that age does not necessarily mean getting old. At least, not in the ordinary sense. I feel many things more intensely than ever before, and for me life grows more fascinating.

At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what's flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.

Marc ducked, holstered his weapon. "You want to play? Have it your way." But then Darcangelo was behind him. "I've got this, Hunter. You go find the girl's dad. I'll handle Karate Kid here. I haven't had a good workout in weeks.

Hot, a badass climber, and a firefighter. I think my panties just melted.

Firemen are my favorite color.' Jesus!

Firemen find 'em hot and leave 'em wet.

You know I am." Lifting his head, he peered into her eyes, his own smoky hot. "Show me.

her, and the sweetness, the passion, exploded inside her a hundred times more brilliant than before as if she'd been living life in two dimensions, two black-and-white dimensions, and

They say that chess was born in bloodshed.

A cólera é tão exaltante e vertiginosa como a volúpia.