Insupportable Quotes

32 quotes by 27 authors

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. — Henry Adams
It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. — Thomas Carlyle
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other… — Patrick Henry
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression. — James Madison
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of… — John Bunyan
But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. — Epictetus
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man. — John Dryden
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into… — Joseph Addison
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is… — Thomas Carlyle
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we… — Augustus Hare
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. — Victor Hugo
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that… — Edgar Allan Poe
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. â€“The Grand Inquisitor — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thereâ€™s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that youâ€™re alive. Itâ€™s… — Ana Castillo
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at… — C.S. Lewis

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