Unbearable Quotes

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.

People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Ingrown anger is like an ingrown hair. The pain it creates in life is unbearable.

... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest.

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.

You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on... I will be sitting on it.

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.