Quotes About Extremes

The Chinese believe that whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

The reason we shouldn't pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes.

Knowing when to pursue the middle and when to pursue the extremes is in essence the true beginning of wisdom. Extraordinary

Pursuing a balanced life means never pursuing anything at the extremes.

It's weird like, you can see the cruelest part of the world. The cruelest part. But then on the other side you see the most beautiful part, do you know? And it's like you go from one extreme to the next and they're both worth it, because you wouldn't see one without the other. But that cruel part, is damn cruel and you'll never forget it. But that heaven…is heaven.

Between justice and genocide there is, in the long run, no middle ground.

If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively. And this, without prejudice to his greatly improved understanding; for, if his elation was the height of his madness, his despondency is but the extreme of his sanity.

There is an extent of riches, as well as an extreme of poverty, which, by harrowing the circles of a man's acquaintance, lessens his opportunities of general knowledge.

Men reacted as they always did; some with an extreme of generosity, giving what little they could spare to strangers; others behaved with an equal and opposite extreme of harshness, demanding outrageous things in exchange. Honest men became thieves, honest women prostitutes, criminals became saints, all driven onward by an idea of what they were leaving behind.

Now in order to tell the difference between good and evil, we have manufactured two images representing the extremes – representing the deepest black and the purest white – and we call them God and the Devil. But in doing so we have cheated a bit. God is a clear image, you can see every hair on His beard. But the Devil. What does he look like?' Bond looked triumphantly at Mathis. Mathis laughed ironically.

Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.

'The Decay Of Lying' is a very interesting treatise. It was actually penned as a dialogue between two characters, Cyril and Vyvyan, both of who were named after Wilde's sons. Wilde goes on to extrapolate art as a science and as a social pleasure, to its most logical and illogical extremes, and it ends up being very funny, indeed.

When the thin line between love and hatred faded away completely, madness sprang back to life inside the numb hearts.

Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.

i am eithera stormor a drought.in-betweenshave neverbeen my thing.

The Radletts were always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair; their emotions were on no ordinary plane, they loved or they loathed, they laughed or they cried, they lived in a world of superlatives.

I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.

My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down.

I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

However, we are very apt to think extremes of people. I shouldn't wonder after all if it wasn't a little of both -- just between the two -- rather cruelly used and rather reserved.

Riot was her element, as surely as this dark room almost creeping with amassed objects. The street and the hothouse; in V. were resolved, by some magic, the two extremes. She frightened him.

You have to be able to make them silent; it's the silence that allows you to hear that glorious moment when the middle C vibrates with the middle tone of all things, the center of time, the hum of tide through a sea urchin's spines, the golden mean that is the exact middle between two extremes, the way courage exactly cuts the difference between recklessness and cowardice.

Warm in the sun, freezing in the shade, it was a season of extremes.