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  • It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence.

    Carl Gustav Jung, Gerhard Adler (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen
  • 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.

    Bipolar   Desire   Erode  
    Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
  • On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2001.
  • A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf
  • We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

    William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.3, Harvard University Press
  • Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.

    Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage”, p.102, Faber & Faber
  • 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 (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.133, Pan Macmillan
  • The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

    Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.96, iUniverse
  • The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

    Robert Southey (1799). “Poems”, p.30
  • When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos

    Hands   Naked   Royal  
    Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr
  • 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 (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.129, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.98, Beacon Press
  • The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

    Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing
  • There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

    Philosophy   Men   Coward  
    Ludwig Lewisohn (1915). “The Modern Drama: An Essay in Interpretation”
  • 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.

    Summer   Fall   Winter  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2014). “Crime and Punishment”, p.560, Penguin UK
  • 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.

    Men   Dying   Lasts  
    Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.280, Northwestern University Press
  • 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!

  • Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

  • Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable.

    Brother   Sex   Husband  
    Jack London (2017). “Jack London for Kids – Breathtaking Adventure Tales & Animal Stories (Illustrated Edition): Children’s Book Classics, Including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Jerry of the Islands, The Cruise of the Dazzler, Michael Brother of Jerry & Before Adam”, p.134, e-artnow
  • There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

    Adversity   Men   Two  
  • 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 (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.230, New Directions Publishing
  • No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

    "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1996.
  • There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

    Atheist   Grief   Fate  
  • The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

    Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.142, Univ of California Press
  • There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.

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

  • 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.

    Summer   Rain   Fall  
    Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.247, Taylor & Francis
  • The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence. In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, and knowledge, and even for beauty is only a vain sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of one's clothes in a community of blind men.

    Believe   Heart   Fate  
    Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.89, Cambridge University Press
  • 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).

    Moving   Years   Useless  
    Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.92, Gospel Light Publications
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