70 Insupportable Quotes

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Famous Insupportable Quotes

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable. — Arthur Rimbaud

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility. — King Edward VIII

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. — Wilfred Bion

We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity. — Che Guevara

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable. — Hirohito

To expect an impossibility is madness. — Marcus Aurelius

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. — Cassandra Clare

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. — Ovid

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me. — Dalida

Impossible is the word for fools in my dictionary. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone who has shown kindness and sympathy. — Cicely Saunders

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. — Max Planck

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. — Max Muller

The irresistible force meets the immovable object. — Gorilla Monsoon

Short Insupportable Quotes

  • The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. — Victor Hugo
  • The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. — Henry Adams
  • The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is. — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
  • The insupportable labor of doing nothing. — Sir Richard Steele
  • Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion. — George Gissing
  • The insupportable labor of doing nothing. — Richard Steele
  • . . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
  • The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. — Roger L'Estrange

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More Insupportable Quotes

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. — Edgar Allan Poe

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair. — Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. — William Samuel Johnson

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it. — Alexis de Tocqueville

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. — Samuel Johnson

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

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

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. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. — Augustus William Hare

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

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

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

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

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. — Miguel de Cervantes

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

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the shades begin to gather around us, our primeval instincts are aroused, and we steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of the intellect. — Henry David Thoreau

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable. — Roger L'Estrange

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong. — Samuel Johnson

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

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

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. — William Cowper

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. — Jean De La Bruyere

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

Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. — Joseph Addison

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man. — John Dryden

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. — Epictetus

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 Dostoevsky

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. — Thomas Carlyle

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles? — Georgette Heyer

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