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intolerable
«In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.»
Author: Brooks Atkinson
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
consisted, intolerable, myth, the good old days
«In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.»
Author: William Styron
(Novelist, Writer)
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absent, absents, condition, crushes, crush out, deliverance, depression, depressions, foreknowledge, hopelessness, intolerable, month, remedy, restoration, the Depression, The Restoration, unrelenting
«RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame --a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.I touched the harp in every key, But found no heeding ear; And then Ithuriel touched me With a revealing spear.Not all my genius, great as 'tis, Could urge me out of night. I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light! --W.J. Candleton»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
harp, inconsiderate, intolerable, leapt, light touch, notoriety, spear, supportable, The Faint, unfriendly
«Little boys may be an intolerable nuisance; but when they are not there we regret them, we find ourselves homesick for their very intolerableness»
«Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
dependence, diversion, diversions, emptiness, helplessness, inadequacies, inadequacy, intolerable, loneliness, nullity, occupation, passions
«Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
at rest, entertainment, intolerable
«I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
amoral, fond, intolerable, moralize, moralizes, moralizing, Music I
«If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Conscience,
Meaning,
Reason
| Keywords:
consciences, dimming, existed, intolerable, One half