Unbearable Things Quotes

• 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.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Unbearable, Sides

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• We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

  Milan Kundera

  Actors, Warning, Rehearsal

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• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

  Milan Kundera

  Pain, Compassion, Imagination

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something - love - from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Asking, Demand

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

  Milan Kundera

  Goal, Suffering, Unbearable

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• There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

  Milan Kundera

  Life, Mean, Decision

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• The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Memories, Brain

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

  Milan Kundera

  Sunset, Auras, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", 1988.

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Unbearable

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

  Georges Courteline

  Integrity, People, Tolerance

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• The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Unbearable, Total Eclipse

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

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Unbearable, Comedy, Crosses

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• 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.

  Ford Madox Ford

  War, Men, Looks

  Ford Madox Ford, Graham Greene (1963). “The Bodley Head: Parade's end. Pt.2. No more parades. Pt.3. A man could stand up”

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

  Orson Scott Card

  Wisdom, People, Mad

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.174, Macmillan

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

  Geoff Dyer

  Unbearable, Life Is, Terrible

  Geoff Dyer (2012). “Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence”, p.127, Canongate Books

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• 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

  Successful, Thinking, People

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2013

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• I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Stars, Flower, Taken

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

  Aimee Bender

  Thinking, Unbearable, Said

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.28, Anchor

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