Quotes by Unendurable On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. Alan Moore unendurable writing trying The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. Djuna Barnes unendurable curves joy What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? Doris Lessing unendurable october months To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. Epictetus unendurable rational irrational "But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself. Epictetus unendurable feels men 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 unendurable habit would-be 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? George Eliot unendurable stupidity social 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. Henry David Thoreau unendurable revolution men We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable. Hirohito unendurable military suffering 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. Herman Melville were-not-meant-to-be unendurable men One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise. Henry Rollins unendurable music-is noise The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. Mark Twain unendurable mediocre soul The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going. Molly Haskell haskell unendurable adversity The grave Is but the threshold of eternity. Robert Southey unendurable graves eternity