Quotes About Unbearable

#1. We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Marjane Satrapi

#2. He looked at me for a moment longer, with unbearable longing. I love you, Alexa. No matter what happens tomorrow, or any day after that, I will always love you.
My eyes burned. I love you, too, Rylan.
But it's not enough, he said. I was too late.

Sara B. Larson

#3. In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

Nicolas Chamfort

#4. But even the innocent blow of a child can be painful, possibly more so than that of an adult since its victim cannot bring himself to strike back. His only recourse, when the pain becomes unbearable, is to put himself beyond the child's reach.

Jim Thompson

#5. Wonder is the sense, which comes in a flash but won't go away, that things are not as straightforward as they seem, that the ordinary way, or explanation and argument leaves you with unbearable contradictions and impossibilities.

Eva Brann

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

Mark Twain

#8. It's brutal to realize that someone might find a life with you in it unbearable.

Erika Swyler

#9. He felt an almost unbearable longing to press himself against her scales and fall asleep with her star-speckled wings over his.

Tui T. Sutherland

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

Gore Vidal

#11. If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

Orson Scott Card

#12. 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.

Dawn French

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

J. Oswald Sanders

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

Timothy Leary

#15. This is unbearable how I talk.

Mandy Patinkin

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

Yannick Noah

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

Kathy Acker

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

Boyd K. Packer

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

Joyce Cary

#20. But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.

Knut Hamsun

#21. The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. The moment you think is unbearable forces you to disappoint yourself by bearing it. There's resigned laughter available, for the hilarity of your own durability.

Glen Duncan

#23. You may wonder why I haven't killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.

Simon Van Booy

#24. 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

#25. I said Matt was too perfect. I was tired of trying to love him, tired of the burden of being loved. How could anyone live with all that devotion and understanding? The scale was tilted so far in my favor it felt like an unbearable weight, a fortune I was compelled to squander.

James Whitfield Thomson

#26. When the heart finds its one true desire, any separation and delay is unbearable.

Stephanie Dray

#27. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.

Amy Tan

#28. To lose such an important listener in life is like losing my shadow. With no shadow, does a person truly exist under the sun? With no listener, does a person really have a voice? Silence means so many things to human beings. Some of them are unbearable.

Reeve Lindbergh

#29. People don't die from panic attacks. It just doesn't happen. You're body is a dick, but it's not going to let you self-destruct like that. Even though the emotional pain and physical discomfort may be quite unbearable, anxiety will not physically hurt you.

Robert Duff

#30. Deep in my chest, a burning sensation emerges, as if any minute the suppressed panic that has been simmering is going to burst out. I squeeze my eyes shut again, for the pain has become unbearable. Another soft whimper escapes.

Kimberly Readnour

#31. Was our life together that unbearable?

Lionel Shriver

#32. What else is there to do but laugh and joke ... how else can you bear up under the unbearable?

Jim Thompson

#33. Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.

Nina Lugovskaya

#34. The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

Alain De Botton

#35. 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 Wolf

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

Georges Courteline

#37. In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#38. Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#39. 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.

C.S. Lewis

#40. And she realized that she still wanted Jared when all thoughts of passion were dead, when other consolation seemed like a cruel joke - that she wanted to be with him when the thought of being with anyone else was unbearable, when the thought of someone else touching her made her want to scream.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#41. The quest for seizing that amygdala moment, those crushing seconds of unbearable, incapacitating shock, seizing these moments and not letting them go, dragging them out for as long as is operationally necessary, that, said Sid, is the aim of the Bucha effect.

Jon Ronson

#42. I've read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner clock just stops working, even if the world keeps spinning you will stand still for the rest of your life.

Katja Michael

#43. It's hope that makes us believe in miracles that haven't come to pass. Hope that crushes us with the unbearable truth.

Claudia Gray

#44. Don't let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don't fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it's so unbearable and can't be survived." - MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.36

Ryan Holiday

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

Sonia Sanchez

#46. But this flower comes in the form of a human; it must soon succumb to disease, atrophy, ruined skin, broken teeth, the unbearable frailty of mortality.

Mary Gaitskill

#47. Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Alexander Theroux

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

Andrei Lankov

#49. 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

#50. In the violence of overcoming, in the disorder of my laughter and my sobbing, in the excess of raptures that shatter me, I seize on the similarity between a horror and a voluptuousness that goes beyond me, between an ultimate pain and an unbearable joy!

Georges Bataille

#51. I suffered unbearable torture in silence, weeping internallyat the sad turn of events, blaming myself bitterly again and again for having delved into the supernatural without first acquiring a fuller knowledge of the subject and providing against the dangers and risks of the path.

Gopi Krishna

#52. Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

Aimee Bender

#55. 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.

Rose Schneiderman

#56. Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

Meridel Le Sueur

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

John Lydon

#58. If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.

Dalai Lama

#59. 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

#60. Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.

Wes Fesler

#61. It's stronger than I, she says, this idea, this need is after me all the time. The movement happens by itself, there is something in my arms that pulls me along irresistibly. If I resist I have these irritable and stifling feelings which are totally unbearable, I just have to give into this need ...

Dan Stein

#62. Most of life is unbearable. It's unbearable but we bear it

Frank Beddor

#63. Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

#64. She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable.

Deborah Levy

#65. I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.

Marlon James

#66. Contemplating this 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.

Dalai Lama XIV

#67. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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

Flann O'Brien

#69. So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.

Alan Moore

#70. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

Yukio Mishima

#71. Too bad she was dull--dull girls were unbearable--certainly pretty though.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#72. With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?

Vincent De Paul

#73. Rage and unbearable pain meshed together like twin strands in an ever-tightening rope.

Steven Erikson

#74. 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.

Maggie Stiefvater

#75. And maybe the black slug will always live inside of me. Maybe I'll always have bad days where the heaviness seems unbearable. But as cheesy as it sounds, maybe the good days will make it worth getting through the bad ones.

Jasmine Warga

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

Diane Abbott

#77. I think bullying of anybody, whether they're gay or straight or anything in high school is unbearable.

Chelsea Handler

#78. Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#79. 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.

Phillips Brooks

#80. Her actions remind me that, even under unbearable circumstances, one can still believe in justice. And above all, love.

Ji-li Jiang

#81. This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Laura Goode

#82. Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Jincy Willett

#83. Father Paul was at the start of life. His glassy convictions needed protection. They waited patiently until he too, succumbed to the unbearable unevenness of God's will, the sureness of his grace, the darkness of his mercy.

Kathleen Tessaro

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

Harper Lee

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

Laini Taylor

#86. Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#87. This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won't just think about how unbearable it is that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy.

Jenny Offill

#88. Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out from these calcified cocoons?

David Mitchell

#89. All the skills from DBT glom together, a mass of acronyms without any meaning. I pull out the DBT books and paw through the pages. Something has to help. Then I find these words: 'The lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they currently being lived.

Kiera Van Gelder

#90. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.

Rick Yancey

#91. 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

#92. The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

Julie Delpy

#93. Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt

Maggie Stiefvater

#94. If rejection and priviledge are one and the same, if there is no difference between the sublime and the paltry, if Son of God can undergo judgement of shit, then human existence loses its dimensions and becomes unbearable light.

Milan Kundera

#95. She had always clung to the hope her world would somehow regain its course and would one day cease its unbearable orbit of a darkened star

Shehanne Moore

#96. The agony is unbearable. Unbearable and endless.

Alan Early

#97. When we're with other people and they say nothing, the situation becomes irritating, tense, unbearable.

Paulo Coelho

#98. One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit.

Woody Allen

#99. quiet courage. "It's not the courage that allows you to run into a burning building. It's the kind that allows you to accept the unacceptable, bear the unbearable, keep going.

Laura M. MacDonald

#100. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell