Unbearable Quotations | Page 2

Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

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.

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.

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.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant…

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.

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.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

His eyes flashed open. “Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it?

Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

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

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.

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?"

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.

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.

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

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

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

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable