Unbearable Quotes

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

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.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

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

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

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

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

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.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

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

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

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.