Eckhart Tolle

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

German Speaker

Tom Hodgkinson

Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon off seems like a fantastic luxury. Before long, you are opting for a four-day week. Then a four-day week becomes an intolerable demand on your time, so you find a way of moving to a three-day week.

British Writer

Jane Lynch

That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.

American Actress

Margo MacDonald

I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.

Scottish Politician

Wilfrid Laurier

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

Canadian Statesman

Italo Calvino

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Italian Journalist

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

French Philosopher

Samantha Harvey

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

English Author

Ursula K. Le Guin

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

American Writer

Venerable Bede

Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

English Clergyman

Conveys strong negative feelings; often used to describe extreme discomfort or dissatisfaction.

Emotional Weight

'Intolerable' varies per person, what is unbearable for one might be manageable for another.

Subjective Experience

Sometimes used hyperbolically for emphasis, not necessarily meaning something is literally unbearable.

Not Always Literal

Used to judge something as more extreme than acceptable, often related to behavior or situations.

Evaluation of Excess

Highlights conduct or conditions that go beyond what is normal or acceptable in severity.

Pushes Boundaries

What is deemed intolerable can vary widely between different cultural contexts.

Cultural Differences

 or at a friends gathering, that, come on, you must know you're not a great mom, given how much you're investing in your career, right? I would lie if I said these words didn't hurt. My children are the most precious thing to me, and the thought that I could be failing them in any way is intolerable.

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 that have done this for generations have to stop. - It's interesting, recently I was talking to some people and somebody made the comment, "Yeah, nature's gonna heal itself, "the question is will man go along with it or not, "or will he make the environment so intolerable for itself

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 of all the computers and everything, it's the forging of a mass awareness, of where everybody can really know everything that's going on everywhere in the planet. And therefore it will become intolerable -- what compassion is, is where it will become intolerable for us,

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 And I've also come to think that it's one of three basically different brain systems that evolved from mating and reproduction. One is the sex the craving for sexual gratification. W.H. Auden called it an "intolerable neural itch," and indeed, that's what it is.

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 Proust is trying to show us that jealousy feels intolerable and makes us look absurd, but it is, at its crux, a quest for knowledge, a quest for truth, painful truth, and actually, where Proust is concerned, the more painful the truth, the better.

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 The man had cut his finger, he worked processing chickens, and then he started to smell really, really bad. So bad that when he got in a room with the doctors and the nurses, they couldn't stand being in the room with him. It was intolerable.

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 thing is people still didn't get on board with similar vices argument about this living matter but why there were a lot of reasons but one of them is that it was absolutely intolerable for a large number of physicians and obstetricians

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 for good manners, for politeness, but at the same time, it's clear that to accuse someone of incivility is much, much worse than calling them impolite, because to be uncivil is to be potentially intolerable

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 milk a stench people in Asia find intolerable like cheese and France durian is precious in Southeast Asia some believe it's worth killing for durian trees don't bear fruit until

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 throw away living may be profitable but the consequences are intolerable it's certainly a problem for everyone and it