Padgett Powell

I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.

American Novelist

Augustus Hare

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.

English Writer

William Samuel Johnson

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

American Politician

Miguel de Cervantes

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

Spanish Novelist

Victor Hugo

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

French Author

Henry Adams

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

American Historian

Used to express strong negative emotions about situations or experiences.

Emotional Weight

Sometimes used figuratively to describe situations that are very difficult, not only physically.

Not Always Literal

Often describes extreme physical conditions that are hard to withstand.

Extreme Conditions

Often used to express moral disapproval of someone's actions or behavior.

Moral Judgment

Implies that there's no reasonable explanation or justification possible.

No Rational Basis

When used, it signals a very strong criticism, not a mild rebuke.

Insupportable