Top 44 Insupportable Quotes
#1. Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
Agnes Repplier
#2. Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
George Gissing
#3. The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
Roger L'Estrange
#4. I was thinking", he answered absently, "about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea, and it was thought queer at the time. It seems that houses had become insupportable to him. I wonder whether it was because he had observed women so closely all his life.
Willa Cather
#5. Every circumstance comes with two handles, which one of which you can hold it, while with the other conditions are insupportable.
Epictetus
#6. He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#7. No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
Samuel Johnson
#9. Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.
Paul Gauguin
#10. While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.
C.S. Lewis
#11. Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?
Shirley Hazzard
#12. I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.
Agatha Christie
#13. It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
Augustus Hare
#14. Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.
Richard Matturro
#15. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel De Cervantes
#17. We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry Adams
#18. Intolerance drunk is bad enough, but intolerance sober is quite insupportable.
Dorothy Dunnett
#19. Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
William Wycherley
#20. The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
John Dryden
#21. The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#23. I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
Padgett Powell
#24. To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
Epictetus
#25. The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
William Cowper
#26. There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion
Alvin Boyd Kuhn
#27. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
Thomas Carlyle
#29. Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
William Samuel Johnson
#30. A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature.
Elena Ferrante
#33. Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.
James Madison
#34. But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#36. The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#37. I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.
Brother Lawrence
#38. The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo
#39. I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition.
Ian Fleming
#40. Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#41. Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
John Bunyan
#42. The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.
Jean De La Bruyere
#43. ...the future is closed to us; were it not, life would be insupportable, as only uncertainty admits of hope
Stanley Michael Hurd
