Unbearable Quotes - Page 3

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

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

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.