We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.
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.
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.
And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It’s unendurable, 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?
One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.
But to be hanged is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
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.
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.
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
