Intense Quotes
1056 quotes by 892 authors
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Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?
— Joe Hill
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There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was,…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined film footage, and…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long.
— Lucy Christopher
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Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you…
— Mary Karr
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I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.
— Margaret Atwood
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He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
— Lauren Oliver
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Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby. "Can it do any tricks yet?" "I'm still working on it. Want to hold her?" "God,…
— Derek Landy
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it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like…
— Lauren Oliver
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It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could…
— Michelle Sagara
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The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which…
— Thomas Merton
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Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
— Milan Kundera
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During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't…
— Rick Riordan
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I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was…
— Veronica Roth
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This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll…
— Deepak Chopra
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What makes a media company successful is how it copes with competitive markets in which people have a choice. Competition today is at a more…
— James Murdoch
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Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with…
— Pope Pius XII
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