#tolerable

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#life #tolerable #would

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

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

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

#affairs #comfort #derived #find #human

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America. ↗

— Rafael Correa

#america #been #century #consensus #foreign

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#am #been #chapter #finds #first

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

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#create #everyone #manner #many #means

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#consisted #crises #days #ever #every

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds. ↗

— John James Audubon

#aware #better #birds #english #habits