Quotes about Intensity

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

Martin Luther claimed that he "never did anything well until his wrath was excited, and then he could do anything well.

Her passions were narrow but deep.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

A boy wants to attack something—and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

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Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?