„It is not the “greatness,” the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.“

— T.S. Eliot
„Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge“
— Winston S. Churchill
„As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?“
— Rowan Atkinson
„I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.“
— Margaret Atwood