Unbearably Quotes

#1. That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

Isobelle Carmody

#2. Long ago it had been discovered that without some crime or disorder, Utopia soon became unbearably dull.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.

Raymond Loewy

#4. History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.

Milan Kundera

#5. The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.

Marisha Pessl

#6. Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Colleen McCullough

#7. Life would be unbearably bland if we had no enemies on whom to waste efforts and energy.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Pearl S. Buck

#9. My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.

Amy Bloom

#10. Misery loves company, as someone unbearably trite said once.

George R R Martin

#11. Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone ...

Terry Bisson

#12. I don't think we should spend any time wandering around that remote possibility. It's nice of you to wish me well, but actually I find it unbearably patronizing.

Maeve Binchy

#13. Thank you for saving my life," Mr. Braddock said stonily, his eyes unbearably sad. "I will not forget it."
"And I will send you daily reminders to make sure," Mr. Kent replied.

Tarun Shanker

#14. My average day on 'Leverage' starts at 5 A. M. and ends 12 to 14 hours later. An hour drive to the set and back sometimes makes the day unbearably long. You have to grab a few minutes to yourself where you can.

Gina Bellman

#15. The wife reads about something called "the wayward fog" on the Internet. The one who has the affair becomes enveloped in it. His old life and wife become unbearably irritating. His possible new life seems a shimmering dream. All of this has to do with chemicals in the brain, allegedly.

Jenny Offill

#16. If everything that looks like love really were love, my God, this would be a different and better world and even the darkest nightmares would be followed by unbearably happy days.

Ray Loriga

#17. But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

Aldous Huxley

#18. Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#19. Aedion hadn't dared tell the shifter that he often counted the minutes until she returned, that his chest always felt unbearably tight until he spotted whatever winged or finned form she wore returning to them.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. SHE FELT a hard pinch on her neck. "Hey!" she protested. Her eyelids flew open. The light was unbearably bright, just as painful, but everything was gauzy and indistinct, like there was a white scrim over everything. She wondered whether she'd fallen back asleep for several hours.

Joseph Finder

#21. In 2004, I was on the West End stage in The Woman In White, and for every show I had to climb into a fat suit to play the obese Count Fosco. It was hard work, and unbearably hot, but I sailed through because I'd always kept myself fit.

Michael Crawford

#22. If everyone followed through on their resolutions, the conseqences for humanity would be dire: The fast food industry would collapse, the gyms would become unbearably crowded, and lifestyle magazines would have nothing left to say.

Amanda Foreman

#23. I almost touch her on the arm as she touched me on the arm, to console her. But I fear that my touch won't tingle her arm as hers tingled mine, and how unbearably sad that would be.

Brock Clarke

#24. What mattered was the here and now and not the life before, what mattered were the changeable things of today and tomorrow and not the ever, infinitely, unbearably unchanging yesterday. She

Madeleine Thien

#25. He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

Robert A. Heinlein

#26. From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.

Brenna Yovanoff

#27. Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

Harold S. Kushner

#28. A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.

Bill Watterson

#29. There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise.

Allie Brosh

#30. The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle.

Arundhati Roy

#31. I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

Kate Klise

#32. The world is unbearably ugly when beauty is judged purely by what is seen on the outside.

Sarah Brownlee

#33. Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't and it probably never will, makes our lives seem unbearably grim in comparison.

Jenna McCarthy

#34. He is rainwater and smoke and wishes. He is honey and wind and bitter as truth and sharp with hurting and endlessly, unbearably sweet. He is air, finally, endlessly

Amy Zhang

#35. I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#36. The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Oscar Wilde

#37. He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

Arundhati Roy

#38. I've ceased to smile long ago,
The bitter winds now chill my lips,
Another hope was just let go,
Another song was added since.
Against my will, I'll cede this song
To people's laughter and offense,
Because love's silence for the soul
Is too unbearably immense.

Anna Akhmatova

#39. There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked his heartbeat askew.

Maggie Stiefvater

#40. I am immeasurably, unbearably happy. I am three years old. I am sixty. I am six. I am there.

David Malouf

#41. It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.

Anna Akhmatova

#42. I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#43. Izzy felt as though she'd wandered into the third act of a play. She had no idea what was going on, but it was unbearably dramatic.

Tessa Dare

#44. Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

George Mikes

#45. Whatever is the loss becomes greater each time we meet. It is a well that will never be filled. It is dark, unbearably so.

Haruki Murakami

#46. This is so unbearably inconvenient," he says. "I was prepared to hate him for the rest of my life.

Tahereh Mafi

#47. The funny thing was that his kiss had felt like fucking me, and his fucking me felt like being kissed, everywhere, every bit of my body unbearably warm and buzzing.

Leah Raeder

#48. If you even suggest to my crew that you've threatened your way aboard my lady, I'll rip out your spine."
"That's unbearably arousing.

Meljean Brook

#49. Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no industrial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

Yanis Varoufakis

#50. With friends, this is a cool world; without friends, it would be unbearably cold.

Dean Koontz

#51. You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.

David Gemmell

#52. Everything, he decided, was almost unbearably sad. Life was wonderful, but nobody seemed to know what to do with it, and the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists.

Craig Rice

#53. I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with.

Jack Kerouac

#54. But living alone forever and ever, among the quietly sleeping tree trunks, with animals that ran away, with whom one could not speak - that would be unbearably sad.

Hermann Hesse

#55. Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic.

Mary Balogh

#56. It's exactly because of what you are," he'd said. Dean hadn't mean prostitute, although he'd deliberately allowed Rob to think so. What you are is beautiful. Warm. Unbearably precious. One night with you, and I'd do anything to keep you. Tear Carwick apart, stone by stone, with my bare hands.

M.J. Pearson

#57. Don't open the box until I arrive. Wear something unbearably sexy that you think will drive me crazy. Because it will. And have a drink ready for me when I walk in the door. Whiskey will do.

Lauren Blakely

#58. My hindsight seemed unbearably clear tonight. I could see every mistake I'd made, every bit of harm I'd done, the small things and the big things.

Stephenie Meyer

#59. If he ever sang, she thought, the song would be so unbearably gorgeous, it would soar over spires of stone and steel, and pierce the hearts of humans and other creatures, and he could rule the world.

Thea Harrison

#60. It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second, to think of the lovely old maple with the swing. We never told the tree how much we loved it. We never gave it a name, never did anything for it.

E. Lockhart

#61. I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.

Sharon Stone

#62. I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

Sebastian Faulks

#63. Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Jim Butcher

#64. That milky splatter on the sheets makes him unbearably sad, and he wonders, not for the first time, whether the whole point of orgasm isn't, somehow, unbearable sadness.

Paul Russell

#65. Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.

Patricia Gaffney

#66. Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach
but start with the premise that it is we who keep ourselves (and our faces) unbearably far away, and we can come to a mutual understanding.

Alexandra Horowitz

#67. She just got sad, okay? Unbearably sad.

Erika Swyler

#68. This is among the oldest, deepest, most primal truths: the facts of life may be, at times, unbearably painful. But the core, the bones of life are generous beyond all reason or belief. Those things that ought to kill us do not.

Augusten Burroughs

#69. The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves.

Malcolm Lowry

#70. I'm sorry," I said. I felt unbearably ashamed. "I'm sorry." "What for?" "For being a blind, self-satisfied ass. For not seeing . . .

Sergei Lukyanenko

#71. If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#72. Horrified, unbearably aroused, he blurted out, "You wouldn't."
Ethan leaned over and kissed his ear, whispering, "Why does that sound so much like 'please'?

Jane Davitt

#73. It wasn't the quick peck Nate had given her. It wasn't like anything she'd ever felt before. His fingers brushed her jaw, settling on the pulse at her throat. The kiss was soft, sweet, almost unbearably perfect.

Elle Todd

#74. Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.

William Lashner

#75. I went home feeling so unbearably alone I actually thought there was a possibility I could drop dead before the night was over.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#76. Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.

Charlie Jane Anders

#77. True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it - either that or you were sunk. You had to work hard to prevent your mind from sabotaging you by its looking hungrily back at the superabundant past.

Philip Roth

#78. I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Franz Kafka