Unbearable Quotes

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

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

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

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.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

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.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

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

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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