Unendurable Quotes

39 Unendurable quotes by 38 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. — Mark Twain
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
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
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. — Djuna Barnes
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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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