Intense Quotes

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Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last. — Juan Rulfo
Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it,… — Joseph Heller
As he stared back, he altered...as if a shield slid away fro his eyes, revealing a scorching force of will that sucked the air from… — Sylvia Day
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other. — Norman Mailer
Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To… — Tana French
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods.… — Erich Segal
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such… — Yann Martel
We need music the most when weâ€™re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when youâ€™re either falling… — Taylor Swift
The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious… — Jack Kerouac
If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies,… — Fernando Pessoa
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… — Anne Rice
The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat… — Milan Kundera
I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all… — Taylor Swift
Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the… — Joe Queenan
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on… — John Knowles
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that… — David Nicholls
Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than… — Lori Wilde
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished.… — Jonathan Carroll
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his… — Thomas Mann
If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others -… — Marya Hornbacher

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