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Unendurable Quotes

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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

Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.96, iUniverse

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Robert Southey (1799). “Poems”, p.30

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.142, Univ of California Press

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.280, Northwestern University Press