Unbearable Quotations

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

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

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

On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there.

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.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing

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.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

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.

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

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.

She's a great model. If she's ruining her personal life, that belongs to her. What she does in her private life is very private. I find it unbearable that maybe someone shot her (picture), stole the photos then sold them.

I am satisfied with the level of cooperation. I don't think that putting an unbearable pressure on Syria would really be very productive at this stage.

But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.

He was a real tough, hard-nosed man that faced a situation that was almost unbearable and did a great job.

He had some stomach pains but he ignored them, being the tough guy that he is. He would think nothing of it. But I guess it became unbearable for him and he had to go to the hospital.

We are hoping this time the Tigers will respond favorably and ease the violence that has reached unbearable levels in the north and east.

Wherever you live on this earth, and whatever your life's situation may be, I testify to you that the gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime.

We have a sense that if we are exceptional parents, we will automatically produce exceptional children. It's unrealistic thinking, and it puts unbearable pressure on the child and the parent.

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.

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.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.

I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.

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.

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

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.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

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.

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

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.

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will--that is the part that's almost unbearable.

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

It was unbearable to watch them. Who thinks losing feels good? It affects your life. It affects your family, everybody around you. It's a disappointment. It's been depressing. We still have one game to try to keep our heads up high, but basically it hurts.

We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.

The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

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.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

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.

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

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

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

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

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

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...

She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.

The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.

This is unbearable how I talk.

For many people, especially in the urban areas, life has become unaffordable and unbearable and these people are waiting to vent their anger through mass demonstrations.

We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

For the German left, it's an unbearable truth.

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

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

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

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

Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

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.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

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

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

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.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.