Unendurable Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable. — Elias Canetti
We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable. — Hirohito
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable. — Cyril Connolly
In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall... — Fyodor Dostoevsky
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic… — Danny Baker
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. — David Foster Wallace
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate… — Emile M. Cioran
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be. — Brooks Atkinson
And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. — E L Doctorow
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute… — Allison Pearson
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable. — James Ramsey Ullman
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity… — Joseph Conrad
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. — Epictetus
The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not… — Robert Southey
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and… — C.S. Lewis
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? — Doris Lessing
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. — William James
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. — H. L. Mencken
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. — Alan Moore

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