Intolerable Quotes

244 quotes by 204 authors

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted… — Brooks Atkinson
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you… — Saint Basil
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig van Beethoven
I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but… — Helena Bonham Carter
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it… — Marcel Proust
If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones. — Gustave Le Bon
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. — Arthur Koestler
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Our losses... have reached and intolerable level. — Karl Donitz
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted… — Woodrow Wilson
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not… — Bernard Iddings Bell
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be… — A. P. Herbert
We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands… — H.G. Wells
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who… — Brother Lawrence
It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless… — Steven Weinberg
Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be… — Hervey Allen
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels… — Blaise Pascal
We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right… — Oswald Chambers
Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is… — Arthur Miller
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable… — Charles Darwin

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