But to be hanged
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
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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
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. Epictetus
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough. Emile M. Cioran
When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable). Elisabeth Elliot
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable. Elias Canetti
And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. E. L. Doctorow
In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already … Read more
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
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. Franz Wright