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Quotes About Unbearable

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
~ Amy Tan
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable
~ Amy Tan
Sarratore's son is really unbearable.
~ Elena Ferrante
C'era qualcosa di insostenibile nelle cose, nelle persone, nelle palazzine, nelle strade, che solo reinventando tutto come in un gioco diventava accettabile. L'essenziale, però, era saper giocare io e lei, io e lei soltanto, sapevamo farlo.
~ Elena Ferrante
There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.
~ Elena Ferrante
the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.
~ Gail Godwin
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
~ Marcia Angell
There was pain. Terrible, unbearable pain. But pain is a natural phenomenon, and it is good. Without it you wouldn't know if your leg was chopped off. But suffering is another matter altogether. Pain is bad enough; why make it worse with suffering? Suffering is entirely self-created. And every human being has the choice: to suffer or not to suffer. It doesn't take much intelligence to choose the latter.
~ Sadhguru
Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.
~ Anne Rice
It was great, wasn't it? Really exciting stuff. (Chris) Like having my teeth drilled without Novocain. (Cassandra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Wine, on the other hand, is like religion: it's mysterious, sometimes literally opaque, and there are too many kinds of it. You never really know if a particular wine is good or bad; you just have to take it on faith from some judgy wine priest, an initiate to its mysteries. And wine is also like religion because the people who really get into it tend to be fucking unbearable.
~ John Hodgman
in the sweltering attic, and
~ Elin Hilderbrand
But I should never write what had happened down. One's nature is to forget, and one ought to go by that. Memory is quite unbearable enough, but even so it leaves out quite a lot.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
No one ever does anything our of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves directly or indirectly. Even if it looks like a sacrifice, the alternative would be unbearable in some way. If I hadn't helped I wouldn't sleep well , and I need my sleep.
~ Sara Donati
Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?
~ Sophocles
But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.
~ Rose Schneiderman
I experienced the heat when I was playing for Madrid. If we went to places like Sevilla early on in the season it was unbearable. Usually you can feel it on pre-season tours in places like Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta. The humidity levels are unreal, but this is different, the first game of the World Cup.
~ Steve McManaman
I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Dualism is what happens when cognitive dissonance becomes unbearable, when the world as it is, is simply too unlike the world as we believed it ought to be. In the words of historian Jeffrey Russell, dualism 'denied the unity and omnipotence of God in order to preserve his perfect goodness'.3 The God
~ Jonathan Sacks
To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.
~ Eric Partridge
Sar-ah,' he called. 'Sar-ah,' spacing the syllables with an unbearable falsity.
~ Graham Greene
it was the source of a constant and almost unbearable pain.
~ Gregory David Roberts