"Man can only endure a certain degree of……" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic"
More Annihilates Quotes
- A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. — George Eliot
- The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of… — H. Chandler Elliott
- The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural… — H.G. Wells
- Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the… — Andrew Solomon
- Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the… — Tom Robbins
- All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest.… — Robert Macfarlane
- Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness… — Leo Tolstoy
- The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us… — Sadegh Hedayat
- By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. — Immanuel Kant
- Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's.… — Jeffrey Kluger
- The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of… — Graham Greene
- Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession. — Charles Spurgeon