Intolerable Quotes

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Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There… — Virginia Woolf
And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many. — Carson McCullers
silence is the most intolerable of answers. — Mason Cooley
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why… — Marcus Aurelius
I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society… — Sylvia Plath
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable… — Thomas Paine
The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this… — Karl Barth
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction… — Theodore Kaczynski
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.… — W. Somerset Maugham
To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using… — Alexander Shulgin
Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams. — Azar Nafisi
She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable. — Rosamunde Pilcher
Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse… — Mel Brooks
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see… — Albert Camus
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take… — Florence King
Come on,â€ he droned, â€œIâ€™ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they… — Douglas Adams
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and… — E. M. Forster
She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving… — Ann Brashares
Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness… — Hermann Hesse

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