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«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
«Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.»
«Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors»
«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)
| Keywords:
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
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