Unbearable Things Quotes

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

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

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

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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