Unendurable Quotes
39 Unendurable quotes by 38 unique authors
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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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Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
— Mark Twain
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It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so…
— Carl Jung
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Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole…
— Andrew Sean Greer
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
— Djuna Barnes
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What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us…
— Charles Wright
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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were…
— Annie Dillard
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This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
— Samuel Freeman Miller
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War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had…
— Robert Graves
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Bella, I coundn't live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don't know how it's tortured me...the thought of you, still, white, cold...to never…
— Edward Cullen
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