Intense Quotes

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

The foundation of success is intense desire.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

I grow more intense as I age.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.

After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

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.

How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still?

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

Your hate is an intense energy which will attract more of the same energy.