Intolerable Quotes

244 quotes by 204 authors

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they… — James A. Baldwin
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. — Teju Cole
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried… — Julian Assange
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable. — Dick Cavett
I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity...… — Margo MacDonald
I fully respect people whose personal religious or moral code has God giving, and taking, life. But there are moral and responsible people who wish… — Margo MacDonald
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable… — Thomas Paine
She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down. — Robert B. Parker
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your… — Wilfrid Laurier
There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our… — Rafael Correa
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. — Doris Lessing
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable… — Sean Brady
Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon… — Tom Hodgkinson
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions… — Henry Louis Mencken
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you… — Octave Mirbeau
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place… — C.S. Lewis
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself...Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion… — HL Mencken America Writer 1880-1956
The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be… — C.S. Lewis
We hide death as if it were shameful and dirty. We see in it only horror, meaninglessness, useless struggle and suffering, an intolerable scandal, whereas… — Senoraroy
The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next — Ursula K. Le Guin

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