Intensity Quotes

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 intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.

All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red.

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

You have to break in half to love somebody.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.

You had better run from me. My words are fire.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

My only rule is to keep moving, for a pump and cardio at the same time. Rest as little as possible. After an hour, you will feel fantastic and your muscles won't know what hit them.

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

What we lack is intensity of life.

And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.

I can't do nothing just a little.

I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it.

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

You ever love somebody so muchYou can barely breatheWhen you’re with them

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

Some burn damp faggots, others may consumeThe entire combustible world in one small roomAs though dried straw, and if we turn aboutThe bare chimney is gone black outBecause the work had finished in that flare.

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors,I want burning, burning, burning.

Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

You are staring at me like you were going to eat me up.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

. . . you may think I waste my breathPretending that there can be passionThat has more life in it than death

I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.

Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.

I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

She turned the key, never taking her eyes from him.