Quotes about Intensity

there was wild excitement, patriotic fervour, not a touch of human sympathy.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Life is beautiful, so long as it is consuming you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is glorious. It is best to roar away, like a fire with a great draught, white-hot to the last bit.

Then her eyes blazed naken in a kind of ecstasy, that frightened him.

he can make every word he speaks draw blood

Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Every time I turn on the Olympics there is somebody that I know and have had intense conversations with, and that's cool.

each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. it merely intensifies it.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

In particular, I had learned that intensity is crucial for any progress in spiritual perception and understanding. To dribble a few verses or chapters of scripture on oneself through the week, in church or out, will not reorder one's mind and spirit—just as one drop of water every five minutes will not get you a shower, no matter how long you keep it up. You need a lot of water at once and for a sufficiently long time. Similarly for the written Word.