Quotes about Intensity

Her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty.

The tons of steel of the Russian tanks were nothing compared with it. For there is nothing heavier compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

I'm just one of those guys that, when I'm going in, I'm going all-in. That's kind of the way you've got to be in this business that I'm in.

God help thee old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.

In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives.

But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange and far more portentous—why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind.

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

I'm passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.

If you really, truly believe in something, you're on fire, and your tongue rolls at the same pace.

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.