Intensely Quotes

363 Intensely quotes by 313 unique authors

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak. — Charlaine Harris
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is… — David James Duncan
Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come… — Muriel Barbery
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad… — Kay Redfield Jamison
In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such… — Jerry Bridges
The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure… — Rebecca Solnit
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we… — Cyril Connolly
we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel… — Brennan Manning
I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting… — Sophie Hannah
It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us… — Eudora Welty
There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely. — Haruki Murakami
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella--… — Georgia O'Keeffe
...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde
The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has… — Mary Oliver
Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only… — Anita Shreve
He wasn't handsome. That was too calm a word. He was intensely masculine. He was sexual. He attracted. — Karen Marie Moning
She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life. — Rudyard Kipling
Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if… — Ann Brashares
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that… — Fernando Pessoa
Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where… — Franz Kafka
Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of talks they'd had… — Jonathan Franzen

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