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
“But to be hanged—is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? — Doris Lessing 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
There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and… — Annie Dillard 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
The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or… — Carl Jung 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
Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social,… — Jean Tinguely 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
There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men. — Ludwig Lewisohn Copy Share Image
This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
“….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
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
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours… — Elisabeth Elliot 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
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
