Top 1200 Unbearable Lightness Of Being Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?

This is unbearable how I talk.

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

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

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.

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

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.

Parsley goes really nicely with everything. It adds a nice lightness; it wakes up a dish.

For baked goods where lightness is a prized attribute - almost all cakes, some cookies - it's important to start with room-temperature butter.

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

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness.

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Overall, 'Singularity' has a certain lightness to it compared to 'Immunity.' It's less closed off; it doesn't have that claustrophobic sound.

I remember 'The Cosby Show,' but that was something completely different. Comedy. There was a lightness to it and a sort of unrealistic perfection.

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

I can be unbearable sometimes asking for so many takes.

The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel the need to get the better of their masters. They’re bad enough when they’re learning. But when they graduate, they become unbearable. [The Kings of Clonmel Pg.268]

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch of lightness, which is the most difficult thing to do.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

My art should have a lightness and sweetness. Especially since it has heavy and triggering subject matters, I prefer to present it in a way that's palatable and draws people in.

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

The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.

Our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness.

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.

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.