Unbearable Quotes - Page 16

• When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Plato, Real, Ideas

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• A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Self, Mind, Criticism

  "'Capote' star Hoffman already an Oscar favorite", www.today.com. September 12, 2005.

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• The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Writing, Backgrounds

  Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.

  Peter Heller

  Mean, Knowing, Doe

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.71, Vintage

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• The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Unity, Would Be

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.385, Open Road Media

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• In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.

  Joan Baez

  Moving, Eye, Turkeys

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• There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about it. You'd assume certain things ... certain activities ... would become unimportant. Certain betrayals would become unbearable. But they don't really. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything takes on a new light. The impossible becomes possible, desirable even. It's quite remarkable.

  Walter Wykes

  Betrayal, Thinking, Opposites

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• You may be going through a trial so overwhelming that it's borderline unbearable. You want to see the end of the tunnel. Which is only natural, because once we see that little speck of light, we feel we can make it through to the finish. But God's tunnels are often twisting, too complex and dark to see the light for many days. In such settings He says, "In that dark, twisting, seemingly endless period of time, trust Me. Stop running scared! Stop fearing!"

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Running, Dark, Tunnels

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.135, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.

  Subramanian Swamy

  Political, Cost, Weapons

  "India’s Nuclear Option". Interview in New Delhi, India, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. February 12, 1987.

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• There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Song, States, Heavy

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

  Sophia Loren

  Mother, Thinking, Changed

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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