Intensity Quotes

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Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise… — Emily Bronte
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon… — William Butler Yeats
My idea is this, that when you only love a little youâ€™re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesnâ€™t… — Henry James
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. — C.D. Wright
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for… — Richard Dawkins
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their… — Orson Scott Card
I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that… — Sidney Poitier
Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light. — Jeanette Winterson
Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if… — Chris Crutcher
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for… — Tennessee Williams
Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with… — Timothy Keller
Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity. — Nathanael West
...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad. — Fernando Pessoa
It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which… — Charlotte Bronte
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness… — Kay Redfield Jamison
But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior… — Isaac Asimov
Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the… — Michel Foucault
Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever… — John Berger
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete… — Bill Bryson
The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought… — Cesare Pavese

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