Intensity Quotes

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. (Mikhail Bakunin)
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. View quote
Steven Chu
Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't. View quote
Kenny Dalglish
"Murder is born in love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.” (Garden of Tortures) View quote
Octave Mirbeau
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity of Spencer, remoteness of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. View quote
William Hazlitt
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. View quote
Herbert Read
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation. (Émile Zola)
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language. View quote
Evan Parker
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know. View quote
Zakk Wylde
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before. View quote
Rollo May
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers. View quote
George Sarton
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface. View quote
Thomas Malthus
I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case. View quote
Lucian Freud
War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort. View quote
Wesley Clark
I can look back... at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust-a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it. (Fernando Pessoa)
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power. View quote
Boris Johnson
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. - The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny. View quote
Emil Cioran
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed. View quote
Cesare Pavese
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation. View quote
Orson Scott Card