While we are young the idea of death or failure is…

When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we…

— Isak Dinesen

May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.

— David Platt

“Government at its best is a necessary evil; at its worst, an intolerable one.”

— Joseph Befumo

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

— Mason Cooley

“Anger is like sex urge, once gratified, the inner voice calls you a stinking fool.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

— Dominique de Menil

A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'

— William Murchison

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream

— Anatole France

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

— Plato

Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.

— Father Damien

I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.

— Georges Bataille

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has…

— Julian Assange

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

— John Vanbrugh

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others,…

— Italo Calvino

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

— Phyllis McGinley