#intolerable

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. ↗

— Saint Basil

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#intolerable #knowing #life #makes #next

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#decision #director #else #film #final

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. ↗

— Anatole France

#existence #intolerable #never #were #would

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#false #feeling #intolerable #sentimentality

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then. ↗