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.
My work life is intense. But I love what I do.
I actually feel something in my chest open, a feeling so intense, it’s like my heart’s about to burst. And I just let it. I just let it out.
I just feel like I'm in the world right now. There have been times when I haven't felt in the world, when I haven't cared whether I was going to be here or not, so my relationship with being on the earth was probably not as intense. And right now, there's an intensity - I want to be here.
I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.
This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.
I spent half my life without the internet, it was pretty much the same thing just a whole lot slower and a whole lot more intense!
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.
The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act".
What Strider thinks of himself "He was too intense, too jaded, too warped and too. . . everything for most women to take for long. But so what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway.
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.
I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.
I love New York. But the energy is so intense
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
Intense love always leads to mourning.
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.
I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.