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• I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.

  Sarah Silverman

  Kids, People, Paradox

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• If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Jobs, Clothes, Trying

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• They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Pain, Heart, Discovery

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• We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE to seek justice and protection. We are impoverished; we are oppressed, overburdened with excessive toil, contemptuously treated . . . We are suffocating in despotism and lawlessness. O SIRE we have no strength left, and our endurance is at an end. We have reached that frightful moment when death is better than the prolongation of our unbearable sufferings. . .

  Orlando Figes

  Children, Justice, Wife

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• There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Grief, Believe, Track

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

  Anne Rice

  Vampire, Would Be, Remember

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.

  Germaine Greer

  Zoos, Thinking, Animal

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Order, Needs, Body

  Cees Nooteboom (2013). “Rituals”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

  Karl Marx

  Technology, Class, House

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• I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

  Meryl Streep

  Song, Stories, Found

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• When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Shelter, Firsts, Difficulty

  Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Home Life in Colonial Days”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution.

  Neal Ascherson

  Blue, Years, People

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• One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Life, Forgiving, One Day

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-daughter Story”, Viking Press

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• For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Joy, Religion

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Home, Sadness, Loss

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• I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

  Agnes de Mille

  Fear, Sleep, Night

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• Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

  Donald Miller

  Epic, Stories, Conflict

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• Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them. It is the evocation of fear and danger in order to escape the tension of insecurity.

  Joost Meerloo

  Hate, War, Insecure

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• Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Past, Mind, Endurance

  Marcus Aurelius (1997). “Meditations”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

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• The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.

  John Carroll

  Men, Groups, Degrees

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.43, Taylor & Francis

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• 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. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Husband, Real, Reading

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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 there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.

  Alan Moore

  Past, Train Of Thought, Finding Yourself

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• When your spirit is heavy, when your heart is broken, when your burdens seem unbearable - trust Him. Look to Him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  God, Christian, Heart

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• I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too – sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling – and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lonely, Drama, Acceptance

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