Intolerable Quotes

244 quotes by 204 authors

[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and… — William Styron
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this… — David Mitchell
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we… — Cyril Connolly
Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even mighty death could… — Dean Koontz
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and… — Carson McCullers
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. — Joseph Campbell
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms… — Walker Percy
Iâ€™ve told you before, I love like a madman,â€ he said. â€œImmoderate, jealous, possessive...Iâ€™m absolutely intolerable. — Lisa Kleypas
The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so… — Jeanette Winterson
Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of… — Flann O'Brien
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. — Theodore Roethke
Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade… — Nella Larsen
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For… — Romain Rolland
If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place… — C.S. Lewis
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable.… — H. L. Mencken
The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. — Hunter S. Thompson
To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to… — Mitch Albom
Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot. — Josh Lanyon
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... — Orson Welles
anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on… — Jose Saramago

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