Quotes About Extremes

Indigence and indulgence are the two extremes of wretchedness.

It was sometimes said that the only difference between Omaha and the North Pole was all the barbed wire.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

Love makes you do, the best of things.Love makes you do, the worst of things, It's a feeling extreme, that doesn't exist in between.

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Only those thoughts which go to extremes can face up to the all-powerful powerlessness of certain agreement.

They are like people who imagine that the answer to constipation is diarrhoea.

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.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

I don't understand moderation. I'm not the nice guy.

I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

If you believe Leondard, this is how Hell breaks people down -- by permitting them to act out to greater and greater extremes, becoming vicious caricatures of themselves, earning fewer and fewer rewards, until they finally realize their folly. Perhaps, I muse over the telephone, that is the one effective lesson which one learns in Hell.

THE HOT WATER'S a scorcher and the cold water's like a winter puddle, and the shower offers nothing in between.

Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom. In actual fact, boredom is now causing, and certainly bringing to psychiatrists, more problems to solve than distress.

Schopenhauer cuando afirmaba que, aparentemente, la humanidad estaba condenada a oscilar eternamente entre los extremos de la tensión y el aburrimiento.

The Americans are people of extremes, prone to fits of rage and self-destructiveness, but also in possession of an inner strength that no one in history has been able to overcome.

extremes of feeling are allied to madness;

So a sense of humor is not merely a matter of trying to tell jokes or make puns, trying to be funny in a deliberate fashion. It involves seeing the basic irony of the juxtaposition of extremes, so that one is not caught taking them seriously, so that one does not seriously play their game of hope and fear. This is why the experience of the spiritual path is so significant, why the practice of meditation is the most insignificant experience of all.

In this round world of many circles within circles, do we make a weary journey from the high grade to the low, to find at last that they lie close together, that the two extremes touch, and that our journey's end is but our starting-place?

its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with