Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
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.
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
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.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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.
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the confused inner life of men. In war, the sad tidy constructs we make to help us believe life is orderly and controllable are roughly thrown aside like the delusions they are. In war, love is outed as an insane, insupportable emotion, a kind of luxury emotion, because everywhere you look, someone beloved to someone is being slaughtered, by someone whose own beloved has been slaughtered, or will be, or could be.
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.
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
