A Quote by Kathy Acker

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

Kathy Acker

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Against Equally Nonsense Only Reaction Society Unbearable

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Kathy Acker
American - Novelist
April 18, 1947 - November 30, 1997

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Arthur Rimbaud

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

Geoff Dyer

All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.

Robert Gottlieb

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

Timothy Leary

Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it

Frank Beddor

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

Robyn Hitchcock

Contemplating the 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

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

Edmond Jabes

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

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.

Danielle Steel

If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.

Saadat Hasan Manto

Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent. The U.S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find the U.S. unbearable with its hegenomism. But deep down, we remember that the 'boys' - came to help us two times, just as the Americans remember that the French helped them with their independence. So there will be sparks but no fire, because a real bond exists.

Jacques Chirac

memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.

Gail Caldwell

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

Jessica Lange

People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.