Unbearable Quotes - Page 5

• Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

  Jack Kornfield

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• If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Doe, Ease

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• Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable.

  Tony Kushner

  Blood, Long, Secret

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.172, Theatre Communications Group

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• The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

  Dick Cavett

  Dream, Anxiety, Next

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• The older I got, the more apparent it became that my mother was losing control over me. She fought back fiercely with black moods, silent treatments and martyrdom. And, of course, all she did was run my ass out of the house even quicker. The pressure was unbearable.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Running, Losing Control

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Comedy, Crosses, Happens

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It's why I'm such a fan of self-help books.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Pain, Book, Self

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• People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Sick, Care

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Cancer, Practice, Trying

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.

  Jack Kornfield

  Beautiful, Pain, Ocean

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• I think summer, at least as I've experienced it, can be joyous but it can also be tough emotionally. Physically, it can be hot to the point of being unbearable and I think you want to capture that frustration, but also the release.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Summer, Thinking, Frustration

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Lyric Poetry, Ideas

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• King Hussein never lost his faith, no matter how difficult and unbearable and cruel the circumstances could be. I always remember that. It helps me get through everything. It's a way of trying to keep that positive spirit alive for as many people as we can touch. I think that's good for the world.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thieves, Unjust, Helping

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• The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.

  Jose Mujica

  Struggle, Different, Would Be

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• But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Children, Lying, Order

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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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• 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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• 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 depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Ideas, Forever, Suffering

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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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• Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent. The U.S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find the U.S. unbearable with its hegenomism. But deep down, we remember that the 'boys' - came to help us two times, just as the Americans remember that the French helped them with their independence. So there will be sparks but no fire, because a real bond exists.

  Jacques Chirac

  Real, Boys, Fire

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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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• 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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• 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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• I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Believe, Heart

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.41, Harper Collins

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