“quieter and more intense”

“An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

“This will be our reply to violence:
to make music more intensely,
more beautifully,
more devotedly than ever before.”

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist

“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

“For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.”

Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer

“That was intense. REALLY intense. Well, not really intense. But pretty intense.”

Chris Pontius (1974) American actor

“True, sincere, intense and pure love is like a flower, the more you care for it the more it transmits deep emotions.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“The consolidation of financial and industrial power in the hands of a small section of the people leads inevitably to more and more intense congestion of money.”

Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman

“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”

Elizabeth Drew (1935) American journalist