Quotes About Unendurable

#1. One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

Henry Rollins

#2. What's unendurable is what his own head could make of it all. What his head could report to him, looking over and ahead and reporting.

David Foster Wallace

#3. And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable

Franz Wright

#4. Ushikawa preferred a world where smells and pain still existed, even if smells and pain were unendurable.

Haruki Murakami

#5. The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

Molly Haskell

#6. Ever since I was born" - that since has a resonance so dreadful to my ears it becomes unendurable.

Emil M. Cioran

#7. There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

Ludwig Lewisohn

#8. The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.

Carl Jung

#9. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.

Rick Yancey

#10. Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality ... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection ... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Jean Tinguely

#11. The world had it all backward: it wasn't sex that was dangerous, it was love. She'd lost people she loved. It was love that brought unendurable pain.

Michael Grant

#12. 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 seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

Elisabeth Elliot

#13. What appeared as unendurable hardship to soldiers of other nationalities produced a species of exhilaration in our lads, raised on a diet of Kipling and institutional porridge. Some

Steven Pressfield

#14. Mysteries make one dream of unendurable bewitchments, they have the fragrance of something quite, quite unspeakably beautiful.

Robert Walser

#15. To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

Epictetus

#16. We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Hirohito

#17. Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

Kenneth Rexroth

#18. 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 another one. What do do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

Emil Cioran

#19. Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Brooks Atkinson

#20. 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

#21. Good writing - good stories - are the imagination's firing pin, and the purpose of the imagination, I believe, is to offer us solace and shelter from situations and life-passages which would otherwise prove unendurable.

Stephen King

#22. Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured.

Lorrie Moore

#23. 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 meet again!

Robert Southey

#24. 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 there is a different country.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#25. We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Alain De Botton

#26. Life would go back to being unendurable, except-and this was the worst part-she would in fact endure it, it wouldn't kill her, she'd keep on living day after day after day, an endless loop of glorious sunrises and sunsets that Janie never got to see.

Liane Moriarty

#27. Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate understanding of death.

Kingsley Amis

#28. What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me choke and faint? Bad air! Bad air! The approach of some ill-constituted thing; that I have to smell the entrails of some ill-constituted soul!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. I suspect we could have done the whole thing on acid ... except for some of the people; there were faces and bodies in that group who would have been absolutely unendurable on acid.

Hunter S. Thompson

#30. I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#31. The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Mark Twain

#32. He tried everything from science to voodoo, everything buy prayer. That, at least, I could give him in abundance. I prayed ceaselessly for him, a desperate human prayer. Not for his life, no one could take that cup from him, but for the strength to endure the unendurable.

Patti Smith

#33. That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

David Foster Wallace

#34. A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

H.L. Mencken

#35. There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

Elias Canetti

#36. You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its meaning. Its inconsistencies and anonymity, its seeming indifference to you and every other individual is really what makes it a safe haven for individuals everywhere (Maeve Brennan)

Elizabeth Winder

#37. People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

Agatha Christie

#38. The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much

Robert Charles Wilson

#39. Some things just are. They can't be changed or undone or fixed.But people-people can heal. Even from events they believe are unendurable.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#40. If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing.

L.M. Montgomery

#41. 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

#42. This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#43. Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's unendurable ... then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well.

Marcus Aurelius

#44. 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 inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Henry David Thoreau

#45. 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

#46. And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

E.L. Doctorow

#47. he climbed desperately to escape the unendurable nuzzling of that loathsome and overfed bhole

H.P. Lovecraft

#48. The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#49. But to be hanged - is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

Epictetus

#50. We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

William James

#51. On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

Alan Moore

#52. 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 at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever ...

Allison Pearson

#53. What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

Doris Lessing

#54. 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

#55. Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly

#56. To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

George Eliot

#57. By itself," he said, "pain is not always enough. There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death. But for everyone there is something unendurable - something that cannot be contemplated.

George Orwell

#58. 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

#59. The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

Djuna Barnes