Intense Quotes
1056 quotes by 894 authors
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Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense…
— James Patterson
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Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.
— Eoin Colfer
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most…
— Franz Kafka
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I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet…
— Paul Theroux
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Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
— Jim Butcher
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When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it…
— Jack Kornfield
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This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.
— P. C. Cast
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The silence was an intense roar.
— Jack Kerouac
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All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as…
— Kenneth Grahame
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I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh…
— Dean Karnazes
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And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out…
— Douglas Coupland
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I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of…
— T.E. Lawrence
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This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for…
— Paul Johnson
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Dimitri. I hadn't known he was here. His eyes were on me too,dark and endless. Only I couldn't read what he was feeling. His face…
— Richelle Mead
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Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a…
— Norman Doidge
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His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.
— David Thewlis
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Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need…
— Frances Mayes
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of…
— Tennessee Williams
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