Intensity Quotes

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. (xxvi)

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.


Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind.

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light!

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.

All that really matters is
to feel alive,
if only for a single moment –
to feel in Intense Sensation
that our existence is not an endless repetition
of sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.

I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.

The height of your achievements is determined by the depth of your self-belief, the strength of your resolve and the intensity of your efforts.

I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.

Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life.

Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?