Intolerable Quotes

244 quotes by 204 authors

It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted… — John Knowles
Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time. — Iris Murdoch
I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most… — Nicole Krauss
For a manâ€™s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils,… — Anatole France
we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. — William Styron
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain,… — MacDonald Harris
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists… — Robert Anton Wilson
September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So… — Louis MacNeice
No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of… — C.S. Lewis
This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. Itâ€™s an unpardonable sin as far as Iâ€™m… — Anthony Bourdain
We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of… — Virginia Woolf
Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of… — Jorge Luis Borges
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When… — Robert Ludlum
If we were all given by magic the power to read each otherâ€™s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would… — Bertrand Russell
You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an… — Henry Adams
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the… — William Styron
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. — Charles Lamb
It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky… — Wallace Stevens

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