Unendurable Quotes

“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he’d become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration.”

“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he’d become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration.”

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”

“There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.”

“We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.”

“Life is seldom as unendurable as to judge by the facts it logically ought to be.”

“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”

“The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.”

“The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much”

“It's always been this way, I wanted to tell him. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.”

“People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.”