We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable. — Hirohito Copy Share Image
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too,… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Abiding. No one single instant of it was unendurable. Here was the second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Ah, my dear—there’s no way of knowing what your heart can endure until you’re faced with the unendurable and find yourself surviving.” — S.W. Hubbard Copy Share Image
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image