Quotes About Extremes

I'm a love it or hate it kind of person, either really loud or really quiet, and things are either fantastic or rubbish.

'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.

We tend to paint the past only in extremes, as having been either categorically better than the present or irredeemably bad.

People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.

Antarctica is a paradise compared to Mars.

L'esthétisme poussé à sa limite tend vers une sorte de neutralisme moral, qui n'est pas loin d'un nihilisme éthique.

I'm a visual person, and I love visual extremes and aesthetic discipline.

In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought. THEODORE ROSZAK, "IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS

This forms the nub of a dilemma that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die. Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin. Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.

knows how this will end: but assuredly in one extreme or the other. There can be no medium between those who have loved so much.

the madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man.

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter — and hell spends the summer.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

A horse walks down the middle of the road. A human being, on the other hand, sticks to one extreme or the other.

Peaks cannot exist without valleys.

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

The violent contrast between the hot season and the monsoon makes the soil ricochet between swampy in one season and hard, parched, and cracked in another.

Jainas have always taken vegetarianism to the greatest extremes, taking pains to avoid injuring even tiny insects, and this too heavily influenced Hindus. The breakaway groups not only abhorred sacrifice but also rejected the Veda as revelation and disregarded Brahminical teachings and Brahminical claims to divine authority,32 three more crucial points that distinguished them from Hindus, even from those Hindus who were beginning to take up some of the new doctrines and practices.

your greatness will be made possible through the extremes of your personality—the very extremes that sometimes make for campfire satire and legendary stories.