Quotes About Extremity

Sufletul unui îndr?gostit miroase a camer? de bolnav neaerisit?,a atmosfer? închis?,alimentat? chiar de pl?mânii ce o vor ÅŸi respira.AÅŸa se face c? întreaga îndr?gostire tinde automat c?tre frenezie.L?sat? în voia ei,ea va continua s? se multiplice pân? la ultima extremitate posibil?.

The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.

Be it so; but if you drive me to extremity, take care,—it is not always safe to make a woman desperate.

Das Böse ist immer nur extrem, aber niemals radikal, es hat keine Tiefe, auch keine Dämonie. Es kann die ganze Welt verwüsten, gerade weil es wie ein Pilz an der Oberfläche weiterwuchert. Tief aber und radikal ist immer nur das Gute.

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

Ours is indeed an age of extremity. For we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

A veces las diferencias entre distintas civilizaciones no se debían al aislamiento sino, por el contrario, al contacto que las llevaba a extremar esas diferencias para distinguirse del otro. La condición indispensable para el florecimiento de una civilización es su comunicación con otras.

I like situations that push a character to the edge.

When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.

I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that's what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I'd just be like everybody else.

I'm just one of those people who happens to be all or nothing. A lot of people can be middle. I'm not.

Is there worse than insane?

If Death Grips isn't the fourth horseman of a hip-hop apocalypse, its music at least tests the genre's threshold of extremity: The trio's abrasive, jittery style teeters on the edge of palatability, and plays toward a morbid curiosity to which many listeners won't succumb.

True vehement love is at the opposite side of sanity.

Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.

I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.

His equilibrium disturbed, he was in extremity at once. If an emotion possessed him at all, it ruled him; a feeling not mastering him was entirely latent. Stagnant or rapid, it was never slow. He was always hit mortally, or he was missed.

When I went off the rails, I didn't do it halfway. No, I flipped a few times, caught a lot of air, and then exploded in a fiery crash.

You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue.

I was perhaps moreover a little the dupe of that illusion of lovers that the beloved object must , somehow, respond, that an extremity of love not only merits but compels some return.

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.