Marquis de Sade Quotes

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.

I think I'm the best fit for characters that have a lot going on inside.

I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

When emotions are deeply stirred, progress must be gradual.

I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.

The experiences and feelings I have are starting to outweigh the words available to explain them.

I'm a passionate person; there's a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers: a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion.

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.

A joy as intense as pain

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.

people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.