. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.
Quotes about insupportable (16 Quotes)
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye, nor (without her piano and her views) insupportable to the ear, though beaten out of the field by the canary which, also, is more portable.
MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime. The genus has a wide geographical distribution, being found wherever sought and deplored wherever found. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye, nor (without her piano and her views) insupportable to the ear, though in respect to comeliness distinctly inferior to the rainbow, and, with regard to the part of her that is audible, bleating out of the field by the canary --which, also, is more portable.A lovelorn maiden she sat and sang -- This quaint, sweet song sang sheIt's O for a youth with a football bang And a muscle fair to see The Captain he Of a team to be On the gridiron he shall shine, A monarch by right divine, And never to roast on it --me --Opoline Jones
You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains Oh what hours of transport we shall spend And when we do return, it shall not be like other travelers, without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travelers.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Do you ever notice, asked Luisa, how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic . . . while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
The insupportable labour of doing nothing.