Unbearable Quotes
304 Unbearable quotes by 253 unique authors
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Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would…
— Milan Kundera
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an…
— Pat Conroy
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Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
— Harper Lee
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The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,…
— George Orwell
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Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new…
— Helen Keller
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It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I…
— Jodi Picoult
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It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.
— E. M. Forster
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Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you're a little hard to swallow. With…
— Suzanne Collins
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That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they…
— Philip Roth
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How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.
— Suzanne Collins
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He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to…
— Ayn Rand
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Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it
— Frank Beddor
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Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed…
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
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Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel…
— John Flanagan
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Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember…
— Alan Moore
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The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.
— Josephine Winslow Johnson
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I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night…
— Isabel Allende
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