Unendurable quotes
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy."
"To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable."
""But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself."
"One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise."
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"The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable."
"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?"
"The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation."
