Unbearable Quotes - Page 5

• My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Christian, Spiritual, Pain

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• If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.

  Donald Harington

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Writing

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• To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Being In Love, Islands, Want

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"

  Muhammad Ali

  Islamic, Heart, Pockets

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• To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic, worries or grieves too much over matters, and ponders too intensively to know God's will, it may become unbearable and hamper its normal operation. The mind needs to be kept in a steady and secure state.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Grieving, Long

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.209, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Ingrown anger is like an ingrown hair. The pain it creates in life is unbearable.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Pain, Hair

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• The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Running, Wings, People

  "Post Floor Speech Interview With Sen. Whitehouse". www.washingtontimes.com. December 21, 2009.

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• The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Taken, Mind

  "The Path of Least Resistance: Principles for Creating What You Want to Create". Book by Robert Fritz, p. 181, 1984.

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• If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Views, Unfair, Seems

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an apparently unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

  Claire Weekes

  Education, Wall, Thinking

  "Hope and Help for Your Nerves".

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• Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.

  Mary Balogh

  Love You, People, Secret

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• So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Growing Up, Waiting, Longing

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Country, Government, President

  "Tim Pawlenty Reacts to First 2012 Republican Presidential Debate". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2011.

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• THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

  Susan Sontag

  Death, Dying

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• For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

  James A. Baldwin

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• If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

  David Levithan

  Goodness, Ifs, Bad Things

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.104, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• ...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.

  Kristin Hannah

  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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• To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right, without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. And I know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest that my heart will be peaceful and calm when I’m laid to my rest.

  Joe Darion

  Running, Dream, Stars

  "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (song) (1965)

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• A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Heart, Needs

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• In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Defeat, Unbeatable

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• What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Dark, What If

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• Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Inspiration, Believe

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• Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Rocks, Focus, Vision

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• The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

  Milan Kundera

  Purpose, Dazzle, Nostalgia

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