quotes about Unbearable
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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.
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I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
-- Aimee BenderSource : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.28, Anchor
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When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.
-- Alice Morse EarleSource : Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Home Life in Colonial Days”, p.1, Courier Corporation
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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
-- Alice Walker -
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Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
-- Allen Klein -
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
-- Amy Tan -
To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
-- Andrei Lankov -
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable ...
-- Anne Bosworth Greene -
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Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.
-- Anne Rice -
The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action
-- Brendan BrazierSource : Brendan Brazier (2007). “The Thrive Diet, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Plant-Based Whole Foods Way to Staying Healthy for Life”, p.37, Penguin Canada
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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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.
-- Christa WolfSource : Medea ch. 10 (1996) (translation by John Cullen)
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Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.
-- Chuck Jones -
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
-- Diane Abbott -
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He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.
-- Duke Snider -
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
-- Edmond Jabes -
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.
-- Eugene Forsey -
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it
-- Frank Beddor -
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.
-- Garrett Hardin -
For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.
-- Gary Chapman -
Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.
-- Geoff DyerSource : Geoff Dyer (2012). “Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence”, p.127, Canongate Books
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If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.
-- Georges Courteline -
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
-- Georges Courteline -
I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.
-- Glen Duncan -
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
-- Harper LeeSource : Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”
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When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
-- Herta Muller -
I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
-- Irrfan Khan -
But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing
-- Isabelle Huppert -
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.
-- J. Oswald SandersSource : J. Oswald Sanders (2015). “Enjoying Intimacy with God”, p.64, Discovery House
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Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed. Lean prose, great characters, and almost unbearable tension ensure that Robopocalypse is going to be a blockbuster. Once started I defy anyone to put it down.
-- Jack Du Brul -
Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest.
-- Jason Segel -
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
-- Jessica Lange -
Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.
-- Jincy WillettSource : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.59, Macmillan
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The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead...
-- John Boorman -
The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.
-- Josephine Winslow JohnsonSource : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.114, Feminist Press at CUNY
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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
-- Joyce CarySource : Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics
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The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.
-- Julie Delpy -
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I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
-- Kathy AckerSource : Kathy Acker (1991). “Hannibal Lecter, my father”, Semiotext
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The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.
-- Kathy AckerSource : Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail
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Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.
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She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.
-- Laini Taylor -
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The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.
-- Lewis H. LaphamSource : "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 7, Descent Into The Mirror, p. 181), 1989.
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There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.
-- Lucy GrealySource : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.
-- Maeve BrennanSource : Maeve Brennan (1998). “The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.
-- Margaret Mahy -
Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.
-- Mary Ann ShafferSource : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.31, A&C Black
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
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I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.
-- Meryl Streep -
To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.
-- Michel Houellebecq -
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.
-- Milan Kundera -
In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
-- Milan Kundera -
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I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"
-- Muhammad Ali -
London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable
-- Munir ButtSource : The Business Magazine, 2006.
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The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.
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The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.
-- Naoki Higashida -
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Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It wasn't easy. I found out how little is unbearable.
-- Nicole Krauss -
Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.
-- Peter HellerSource : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.71, Vintage
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Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.
-- Ram Dass -
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Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.
-- Richard SerraSource : Richard Serra (1994). “Writings/Interviews”, p.185, University of Chicago Press
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When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.69, Beacon Press
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His eyes flashed open. “Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it?
-- Stephenie Meyer -
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the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.
-- Susan AbulhawaSource : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.220, Bloomsbury Publishing
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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.
-- Susie OrbachSource : "The Chetham music school trial shows therapy is crucial for sex abuse victims" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.
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The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.
-- Thomas Bernhard -
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
-- Yann Martel -
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
-- Yannick Noah -
Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
-- Flann O'Brien -
The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.
-- Volkmar Sigusch