#Intensity Quotes

“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”

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

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

“A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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 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.”

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

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

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

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

“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.”

“You have to break in half to love somebody.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”

“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?”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”