Unbearable Quotes - Page 15

• There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Song, States, Heavy

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• 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.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Pregnancy, Moving, Movement

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Talking, Topics

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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• London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable

  Munir Butt

  London, Clean, Used

  The Business Magazine, 2006.

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• no one who has seen an angel ever mistakes it for a ghost. Angels are remarkable for their warmth and light, and all who see them speak in awe of their irridescent and refulgent light, of brilliant colors, or else of the unbearable whiteness of their being. You are flooded with laughter, happiness.

  Sophy Burnham

  Laughter, Mistake, Angel

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.35, Penguin

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

  Frank Beddor

  Bears, Life Is

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• memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.

  Gail Caldwell

  Pain, Memories, Grief

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• But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

  Eva Figes

  Childhood, Sake, Adults

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• With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

  Rosanne Cash

  Grief, Tragedy, Poignant

  Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.108, Penguin

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• How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.

  Vivian Gornick

  Moving, Roots, People

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• poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Pain, Moving, Long

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• Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.

  Joan Aiken

  Teaching, Healing, Mean

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• He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

  Ayn Rand

  Order, Giving, Waiting

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.241, Penguin

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• The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Writing, Backgrounds

  Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Self, Mind, Criticism

  "'Capote' star Hoffman already an Oscar favorite", www.today.com. September 12, 2005.

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• When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Plato, Real, Ideas

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• My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Summer, Moving

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• If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Feelings, Wish

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

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• Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, Perfect, Darkness

  "'I'm flattered, amazed, deeply moved and sometimes a little dizzy'". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2004.

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• I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

  Dawn French

  Children, War, Thinking

  "Dawn French opens her heart on the death of her mum and the challenges her family faced" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Sadness, Views, World

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• When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

  Yann Martel

  Sad, Pain, Trifling

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.

  Subramanian Swamy

  Political, Cost, Weapons

  "India’s Nuclear Option". Interview in New Delhi, India, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. February 12, 1987.

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• The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Unity, Would Be

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.385, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Peter Heller

  Mean, Knowing, Doe

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.71, Vintage

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