Quotes about Intensity

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

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 of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!