Intensity Quotes

554 Intensity quotes by 480 unique authors

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
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the… — Edgar Allan Poe
Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it. — J D Salinger
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great… — Tom Robbins
The excellence of every Art is its intensity. — John Keats
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk,… — William S. Burroughs
..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you. — Nuala O'Faolain
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out… — J M Coetzee
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. — Kay Redfield Jamison
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least… — John Green
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and… — Fernando Pessoa
Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people… — Ernest Hemingway
He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity. — Ilona Andrews
Vishous's chest expanded. . . and his diamond stare slowly swung to Butch. There was a heartbeat of intensity. Then V reached out and repositioned… — J R Ward
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning… — Dave Eggers
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I… — Sylvia Plath
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his… — Virginia Woolf
Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope… — Walter Kaufmann
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting. — Milan Kundera
How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich… — Anais Nin
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my… — Stephen Fry

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