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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. -- Timothy Leary
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. -- George Bernard Shaw
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. -- Anton Chekhov
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. -- Erich Fromm
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. -- Bob Hope
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
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
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
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. -- Albert Camus
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
Silence is the unbearable repartee. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. -- Shimon Peres
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable. -- Milan Kundera
Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest. -- Jason Segel
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. -- Eugene Forsey
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
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead... -- John Boorman
I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in - and the West in general - into an unbearable hell and a choking life. -- Osama bin Laden
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable. -- Fawn M. Brodie
I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. -- Albert Einstein
There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book. -- Susan Griffin
New Rule: There's only one thing to say about the Christian Film and Television Commission giving me the Bigoted Bile Award and naming Religulous the number-one Most Unbearable Movie of 2008: Thank you! You hate me, you really hate me! -- Bill Maher
Silence is the unbearable repartee. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. -- John Lydon
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. -- Alice Walker
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable. -- Yannick Noah
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. -- Georges Courteline
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. -- Gore Vidal
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job. -- Mark Pocan
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. -- Albert Camus
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
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
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
It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. -- Henry Rollins
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It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward. -- Joyce Banda
Life without forgiveness is unbearable. -- Jack Kornfield
Loneliness is a long unbearable pain, -- Dennis Nilsen
This is unbearable how I talk. -- Mandy Patinkin
Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me. -- Dalida
Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable. -- C. S. Lewis
In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable -- Winston Churchill
the reverse side of love is unbearable loss. -- Susan Abulhawa
Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes! -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. -- Charles Bukowski
The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable. -- Arthur Rimbaud
Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die. -- Marjane Satrapi
Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable? -- Tahereh Mafi
The condition of being an actress can be unbearable. -- Julie Delpy
Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I. -- Susan Sontag
Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read. -- Jincy Willett
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. -- Harper Lee
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable. -- Anne Rice
All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. -- Robert Gottlieb
The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable. -- Thomas Bernhard
Most of life is unbearable. It's unbearable but we bear it -- Frank Beddor
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. -- Oscar Wilde
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom. -- James A. Baldwin
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable. -- Dick Cavett
The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense. -- Kathy Acker
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant. -- Rosanne Cash
This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. -- John Green
You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. -- Cassandra Clare
If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable. -- David Levithan
When I don't understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. -- Robert A. Heinlein
If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist. -- Cees Nooteboom
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. -- Diane Abbott
I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike. -- Anne Sexton
Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared. -- Ram Dass
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. -- Edmond Jabes
Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight. -- Richard Serra
Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst. -- Kin Hubbard
To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence. -- Andrei Lankov
I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me. -- Albert Einstein
Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable. -- Sophie Kinsella
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable. -- Marcus Aurelius
Suffering is unbearable if you aren't certain that God is for you and with you. -- Timothy Keller
The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable. -- Naoki Higashida
Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable. -- Donald Miller
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it. -- J. Oswald Sanders
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. -- Viktor E. Frankl
It's brutal to realize that someone might find a life with you in it unbearable. -- Erika Swyler
I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them. -- Margaret Mahy
But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing -- Isabelle Huppert
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another. -- Joyce Cary
Ingrown anger is like an ingrown hair. The pain it creates in life is unbearable. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier. -- E. M. Forster
If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie? -- Bryant McGill
His eyes flashed open. "Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it? -- Stephenie Meyer
I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing. -- Kathy Acker
I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing." -- Kathy Acker
Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. -- Yann Martel
There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable. -- William Gibson
I think bullying of anybody, whether they're gay or straight or anything in high school is unbearable. -- Chelsea Handler
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season. -- Sonia Sanchez
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable ... -- Anne Bosworth Greene
Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens". ~R. Alan Woods [2013] -- R. Alan Woods
It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable. -- Suzanne Collins
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves. -- Herta Muller
Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt -- Maggie Stiefvater
There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality. -- William Faulkner
I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. -- Glen Duncan
All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable. -- Maeve Brennan
I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think. -- Marjane Satrapi
If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable. -- Georges Courteline
Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world. -- Sri Chinmoy
Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it. -- Geoff Dyer
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope. -- Aimee Bender

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