I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among enemies: one is punished for success. This is our intolerable dilemma: that failure is a kind of death and success is evil and dangerous, is--ultimately--impossible.
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O. K. , but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do. ' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds.
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.
Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. . . It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.
It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.
Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.
