Unendurable Quotes
39 Unendurable quotes by 38 unique authors
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There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
— Elias Canetti
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We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.
— Hirohito
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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
— Cyril Connolly
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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
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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
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
— David Foster Wallace
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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
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Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
— Brooks Atkinson
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And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.
— E L Doctorow
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
— Epictetus
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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
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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
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What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?
— Doris Lessing
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
— William James
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
— H. L. Mencken
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On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
— Alan Moore
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of…
— Robert Graves
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its…
— Henry David Thoreau
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