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Quotes About Extremity

I do tend to overdo everything.
~ Gail Porter
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.
~ Paul Gauguin
For women fear too much, even as they love, And women's fear and love hold quantity, In neither aught, or in extremity. Now what my love is, proof hath made you know, And as my love is sized, my fear is so: Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear. Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
~ William Shakespeare
The extreme always makes an impression.
~ Jeff Hardy
in some sort of mad spasm of suicidal fury.
~ David Weber
Death is the last limit of all things.
~ Horace
I either go all in or all out.
~ Carlos Beruff
Let me make one thing clear: this theory that the universe, after having reached an extremity of rarefaction, will be condensed again has never convinced me. And yet many of us are counting only on that, continually making plans for the time when we'll all be back there again.
~ Italo Calvino
Most people are so mind-bogglingly aggravating that it's impossible to overreact to them, even if that means killing yourself.
~ Maija Haavisto, The Atlas Moth
It does not take long to die, nor to kill. A life is present or absent, and it is an instant passed between those extremities.
~ Unknown
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
~ George Orwell
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
~ Matthew Henry
Man's extremity is God's opportunity of helping and saving.
~ Matthew Henry
I call disaster what does not have the last limit: that which drags the last in the disaster.
~ Maurice Blanchot
For there is nothing more serious than a lunatic when he comes to the central point of his lunacy.
~ Max Stirner
I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you.
~ Michael Finkel