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Intolerable Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
- If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often…
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Intolerable Quotes
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil
- I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch… — 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… — 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… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give.… — Bernard Iddings Bell