Bearable Quotes - Page 2

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.

The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!

Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action

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.

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

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

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

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.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.

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