Unbearable 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, Sides, Helping

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• Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

  Milan Kundera

  Cutting, Tests, Effects

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

  Timothy Leary

  Civilization, Society

  "Still Casting Shadows: A Shared Mosaic of U.s. History". Book by B. Clay Shannon, p. 376, 2006.

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• Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

  Shimon Peres

  Funny, Witty, Democracy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

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• To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

  Erich Fromm

  Sympathy, Death, Wise

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.162, Routledge

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  I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Laughter, Caring

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Milan Kundera

  Goal, Suffering, Someday

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• Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Half, Longing

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

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• Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest.

  Jason Segel

  Scripts, Bears, Grizzlies

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• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Strong, Fear

  Autobiography prologue (1967)

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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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• Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.

  Helen Keller

  Relationship, Soulmate, Fall

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• You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

  Marguerite Duras

  Love, Philosophical, Men

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.41, Grove Press

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• Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

  Milan Kundera

  Success, Fall, Voice

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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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• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  Yannick Noah

  Payment, Taxes, Take Me

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• And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

  Milan Kundera

  Rehearsal, Firsts, Life Is

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

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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, Use

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

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• Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

  Milan Kundera

  Drama, Burden, Heaviness

  The Unbearable Lightness of Being pt. 3, ch. 10 (1984) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

  Milan Kundera

  Unhappy Person, Life Is, Persons

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

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• But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Hurt, Enough

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

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• Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

  Milan Kundera

  Metaphor, Dangerous, Lightness

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• she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Arms, Emblems

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• Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Dream, Memories

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