I found out how little is unbearable.

Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living.…

— Nicole Krauss

“What if?’ has no power against ‘What if not?’ The not of you is unbearable. I must have you.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Identity confusion... is as if somebody lost their mental road map and has no appreciation of who they are or what is going on…

— Richard A. Chefetz

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

— Georges Courteline

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“the unbearable persistence of hope”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

— Tony Bellew

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

— Milan Kundera

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…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our…

— John Boorman

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Milan Kundera

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing…

— Franz Kafka

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare…

— Yasser Arafat

But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

— Anne Rice