Unbearable Quotes - Page 13

• And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

  Jack Kerouac

  Garden, Thinking, Nuts

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• ... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

  Harold Russell

  Odds, Soul, Triumph

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• Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Way, Humour, Bearable

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.31, A&C Black

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• You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

  Steve Martin

  Moments, Fame, Knows

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. May, 2005.

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• Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.

  Wes Fesler

  Honesty, Lying, Air

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• But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

  Naoki Higashida

  Stress, Grief, Ideas

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• For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing
  lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be
  there to know what we have done for those we love.

  Frank Pittman

  Marriage, People, Done

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• If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

  Georges Courteline

  Greed, Permit, Tolerate

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• But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.

  Knut Hamsun

  Spring, Heart, Spices

  Knut Hamsun (2012). “Dreamers”, p.10, Souvenir Press

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• The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Art, Philosophical, Needs

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• Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place." Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

  Brennan Manning

  Crush, Jesus, Children

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.6, NavPress

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• The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

  Julie Delpy

  Actresses, Conditions

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• My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

  Diane Abbott

  Mother, Records, Hated

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• The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

  Naoki Higashida

  People, Unhappiness, Source

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• My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

  John Keats

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

  William Saroyan

  Dirty, People, Comedian

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• If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification: I see the motif, the way I painted it, is somehow ugly or unbearable. Then I try to follow my feelings and make it attractive. And that means a process of painting, changing or destroying - for however long it takes - until I think it has improved. And I don't demand an explanation from myself as to why this is so.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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

  Joyce Cary

  Generations, Injustice, All Things

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics

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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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• It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Angel, Endurance

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• Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.

  Andy Greenwald

  Eye, Waiting, Silence

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Eye, Balls, Body

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• Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Song, Noise, Whistling

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• Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet robes to best effect. "Well of course it is. I'd never dream of giving wine to an infant! What do you take me for, a barbarian? But for you... well, it might go a long way to make you a little less jumpy. You've been positively unbearable to live around. "I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Baby, Wine

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.16, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

  Yukio Mishima

  Jealous, Men, World

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.208, New Directions Publishing

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