Unbearable Quotes - Page 9

• The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Small Problems, Self

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Men, Two

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Mean, Insanity

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• Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you're a little hard to swallow. With your tacky romantic drama and your defender-of-the-helpless act. Only it isn't an act, which makes you more unbearable. Please feel free to take this personally.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Drama, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1264, Scholastic Inc.

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• Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Suffering, Want

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang.

  Gayle Forman

  Reading, Holiday, Cat

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.33, Penguin

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• I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

  Rod Stewart

  Wine, Bottles, France

  "Rod Stewart: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate and profound path. We may be adverse to seeing our own suffering because it tends to ignite a blaze of self-blame and regret. And we may be adverse to seeing suffering in others because we find it unbearable or distasteful, or we find it threatening to our own happiness. All of these possible reactions to the suffering in the word make us want to turn away from life.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Regret, Compassion

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion”, p.24, Sounds True

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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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• How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Laughter, Shoes

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

  Cyril Connolly

  Emotional, Feelings, Youth

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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, Said, Agree

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

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• I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

  Alice Walker

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 6, 2010.

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

  Maeve Brennan

  Past, Faces, Happened

  Maeve Brennan (1998). “The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.

  Tony Kushner

  Depressing, Thinking, Imagination

  "Angels in America". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It wasn't easy. I found out how little is unbearable.

  Nicole Krauss

  Littles, Kind, Sometimes

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.224, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Needs, World

  " "Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50" by Sri Chinmoy, (#4386, Part 5), 1998.

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• A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

  Billy Graham

  Humor, Adversity, Overcoming

  Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam

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• It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Change, Men, Usual

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• It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.

  Michael Haneke

  Mother, Baby, Strong

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• I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

  Heinrich Heine

  Pride, Numbers, Rude

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

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Eye, His Eyes

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Life, Goodbye, Bears

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing is, the more I see him and Corr together, the more I think of how unbearable it would be for Sean to lose him. But we can't both win.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Winning, Thinking, Together

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• Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

  Garrett Hardin

  Doe, Behavior, Harm

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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