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1. “It's not that I can't fall in love. It's really that I can't help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can't distinguish between what's platonic and what isn't, because it's all too much and not enough at the same time.”
Jack Kerouac
Love, Overwhelm, Relationships, Confusion, Emotional Intensity
3. “Don’t you see that I cannot be composed, I cannot reconcile myself, because there is no other reality but loneliness for me and before I am dragged back into isolation I will clasp and grasp and claw in fright even at you without consciousness – even I – and I am afraid that I cannot survive if I have to go on into myself.” Allen Ginsberg Loneliness, Fear, Vulnerability, Isolation, Emotional Intensity, Existential Despair
5. “I shudder, I see the love, I'm doomed, my heart melts again – can't stand not to be in love, can't stand not to be melting with real tenderness, childlike need sweetnesses, that's what's wrong with me.” Allen Ginsberg Vulnerability, Love, Emotional Intensity, Self-awareness, Personal Confession, Romantic Longing
6. “No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy.” Allen Ginsberg Love, Obsession, Desire, Emotional Intensity, Existential Need, Poetic Expression
7. “There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.” Edgar Allan Poe Conflict, Chaos, Tension, Philosophical Insight, Historical Reference, Emotional Intensity
8. “At times we gasped for breath at an elevation beyond the albatross – at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.” Edgar Allan Poe Adventure, Danger, Existential Threat, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Intensity, Poetic Expression
11. “If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the opposite. So now mind what I say! You will hear it and forget it again. You will laugh over it, and you will weep over it. So look out! I am going to play with you for life and death, little brother, and before we begin the game I'm going to lay my cards on the table.” Hermann Hesse Wise, Game, Death, Interpersonal Challenge, Life Wisdom, Emotional Intensity
12. “A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages...” Hermann Hesse Longing, Rage, Smash, Emotional Intensity, Existential Frustration, Destructive Impulse
13. “Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.” T.S. Eliot Excitement, Passion, Differentiation, Human Nature, Emotional Intensity, Philosophical Observation
17. “She saw herself in this connexion without detachment – saw others alone with intensity; otherwise she might have been struck, fairly have been amused, by her free assignment of the pachydermatous quality.” Henry James Emotional Intensity, Self-Reflection, Detachment, Quality, Perspective, Struggle
19. “They had found themselves looking at each other straight, and for a longer time on end than was usual even at parties in galleries; but that, after all, would have been a small affair, if there hadn’t been something else with it. It wasn’t, in a word, simply that their eyes had met; other conscious organs, faculties, feelers had met as well.” Henry James Interpersonal Connection, Emotional Intensity, Narrative Insight, Eye Contact, Reflection, Emotion
20. “It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain. Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be the good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.” Sylvia Plath Painful Awareness, Present Moment, Fleeting Time, Emotional Intensity, Self-reflection, Grief
24. “They were solitary little girls whose loneliness was so profound it intoxicated them and sent them stumbling into Technicolored visions that always included a presence, a someone, who, quite like the dreamer, shared the delight of the dream.” Toni Morrison Loneliness, Dreamworld, Emotional Intensity, Loneliness, Dreamworld, Intensity
26. “Oh God, I wish you were not on this earth, but entirely within me, or rather that I were not on this earth, but entirely within you; I feel there is one too many of us; the separation into two people is unbearable.” Franz Kafka Divine Union, Love, Spirituality, Separation, Intimacy, Emotional Intensity
Emotional Intensity Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “It's not that I can't fall in love. It's really that I can't help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can't distinguish between what's platonic and what isn't, because it's all too much and not enough at the same time.”
Jack Kerouac Love, Overwhelm, Relationships, Confusion, Emotional Intensity
3. “Don’t you see that I cannot be composed, I cannot reconcile myself, because there is no other reality but loneliness for me and before I am dragged back into isolation I will clasp and grasp and claw in fright even at you without consciousness – even I – and I am afraid that I cannot survive if I have to go on into myself.”
Allen Ginsberg Loneliness, Fear, Vulnerability, Isolation, Emotional Intensity, Existential Despair
5. “I shudder, I see the love, I'm doomed, my heart melts again – can't stand not to be in love, can't stand not to be melting with real tenderness, childlike need sweetnesses, that's what's wrong with me.”
Allen Ginsberg Vulnerability, Love, Emotional Intensity, Self-awareness, Personal Confession, Romantic Longing
6. “No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy.”
Allen Ginsberg Love, Obsession, Desire, Emotional Intensity, Existential Need, Poetic Expression
7. “There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.”
Edgar Allan Poe Conflict, Chaos, Tension, Philosophical Insight, Historical Reference, Emotional Intensity
8. “At times we gasped for breath at an elevation beyond the albatross – at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.”
Edgar Allan Poe Adventure, Danger, Existential Threat, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Intensity, Poetic Expression
11. “If I were wise, I shouldn't tell you. But I won't be wise, Harry, not for this time. I'll be just the opposite. So now mind what I say! You will hear it and forget it again. You will laugh over it, and you will weep over it. So look out! I am going to play with you for life and death, little brother, and before we begin the game I'm going to lay my cards on the table.”
Hermann Hesse Wise, Game, Death, Interpersonal Challenge, Life Wisdom, Emotional Intensity
12. “A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages...”
Hermann Hesse Longing, Rage, Smash, Emotional Intensity, Existential Frustration, Destructive Impulse
13. “Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.”
T.S. Eliot Excitement, Passion, Differentiation, Human Nature, Emotional Intensity, Philosophical Observation
17. “She saw herself in this connexion without detachment – saw others alone with intensity; otherwise she might have been struck, fairly have been amused, by her free assignment of the pachydermatous quality.”
Henry James Emotional Intensity, Self-Reflection, Detachment, Quality, Perspective, Struggle
19. “They had found themselves looking at each other straight, and for a longer time on end than was usual even at parties in galleries; but that, after all, would have been a small affair, if there hadn’t been something else with it. It wasn’t, in a word, simply that their eyes had met; other conscious organs, faculties, feelers had met as well.”
Henry James Interpersonal Connection, Emotional Intensity, Narrative Insight, Eye Contact, Reflection, Emotion
20. “It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain. Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be the good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.”
Sylvia Plath Painful Awareness, Present Moment, Fleeting Time, Emotional Intensity, Self-reflection, Grief
24. “They were solitary little girls whose loneliness was so profound it intoxicated them and sent them stumbling into Technicolored visions that always included a presence, a someone, who, quite like the dreamer, shared the delight of the dream.”
Toni Morrison Loneliness, Dreamworld, Emotional Intensity, Loneliness, Dreamworld, Intensity
26. “Oh God, I wish you were not on this earth, but entirely within me, or rather that I were not on this earth, but entirely within you; I feel there is one too many of us; the separation into two people is unbearable.”
Franz Kafka Divine Union, Love, Spirituality, Separation, Intimacy, Emotional Intensity
