Top 1200 Unbearable Things Quotes & Sayings

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at the illusion. But my shoulders are very frail. I was unable to bear the weight of the world's condemnation. And I began to hate you when everything about you would have kindled my love and when love would have made men's contempt unbearable, and their contempt would have made my love unbearable. The fact is, I hate you.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Life is a journey one that much better traveled with a companion by our side. Sometimes, we lose our companions along the way and then the journey becomes unbearable. You see, human beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

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

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

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

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

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

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had never paid any attention to. And as you photograph, one of the benefits is that the world becomes a much richer, juicier, visual place. Sometimes it is almost unbearable — it is too interesting. And it isn’t always just the photos you take that matters. It is looking at the world and seeing things that you never photograph that could be photographs if you had the energy to keep taking pictures every second of your life.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

I knew how to write like an academic, so I knew how to write academic papers and essays and things. But the things that are great for an essay are unbearable in narrative writing.

I can be unbearable sometimes asking for so many takes.

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

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

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

This is unbearable how I talk.

I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

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

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.

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

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

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 things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

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.

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.

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

It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

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

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

His eyes flashed open. “Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it?

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

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

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

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

There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

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

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.

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.

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.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

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

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

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

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.

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