Unbearable Quotes
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.
You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.
I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.
Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.
The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.
The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.
I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.
When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.
I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.
In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.
Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.
I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.
Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.
The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.
Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.
Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.
Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.
But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.
She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.
The only thing is, the more I see him and Corr together, the more I think of how unbearable it would be for Sean to lose him. But we can't both win.
Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
