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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. -- Djuna Barnes
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable. -- Cyril Connolly
We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable. -- Hirohito
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. -- William James
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. -- Epictetus
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be. -- Brooks Atkinson
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going. -- Molly Haskell
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. -- H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
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
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
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer. -- Bertolt Brecht
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
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
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
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
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
I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons - and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body. -- Fanny Kemble
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence. -- Herman Melville
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
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 is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. -- David Foster Wallace
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? -- Doris Lessing
One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise. -- Henry Rollins
There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men. -- Ludwig Lewisohn
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. -- Alan Moore
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. -- Mark Twain
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable. -- Elias Canetti
And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. -- E. L. Doctorow
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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

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