Intense Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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

You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.

I grow more intense as I age.

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

The foundation of success is intense desire.

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.

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

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

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

I'm probably a good boyfriend, but I'm pretty intense. When you're with me it's exciting, fun and very intense. At the same time, I'm easy going. But all that depends on what girl I'm with.

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.

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

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

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

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

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

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied century. Before, you could never have seen such intense change in a 50-year span.

Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues.

I remind myself that we need to continue to do the things we believe in and be even more vocal about asking people to do more. This might be my Scorpio talking, but everything feels more intense than before. I'll probably keep doing what I'm doing and shift gears if something comes along. I'm pretty fluid.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.