Best Unbearable Words

304 Unbearable quotes by 253 unique authors

I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a… — Jeanette Winterson
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance ,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Loneliness is a long unbearable pain, — Dennis Nilsen
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… — Oscar Wilde
A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to… — Tim Ward
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not,… — Gore Vidal
If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do. — Orson Scott Card
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. — Anton Chekhov
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but… — William Saroyan
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are… — Claude Vorilhon
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification:… — Gerhard Richter
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another. — Joyce Cary
... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph. — Harold Russell
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune… — Susie Orbach
What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being… — John Boorman
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable. — Diane Abbott
The condition of being an actress can be unbearable. — Julie Delpy
As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket.… — Jeff Greenfield
I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist. — Cees Nooteboom
It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe,… — Robert A. Heinlein
When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why. — Robert A. Heinlein
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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