Unbearable Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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• My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

  Franz Kafka

  Jobs, Mean, Desire

  Franz Kafka (1948). “The diaries of Franz Kafka”, Schocken

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• The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Fun, Spheres, Ends

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

  Alain de Botton

  Successful, Thinking, People

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2013

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• Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that, I tell myself that lying down to an afternoon nap that goes on and on through eternity is not something to be concerned about. What spoils this pleasant fancy is the recollection that when people are dead they don't read books. This I find unbearable.

  William Maxwell

  Dream, Lying, Book

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hitting, Reason, Unfair

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think bullying of anybody, whether they're gay or straight or anything in high school is unbearable.

  Chelsea Handler

  Bullying, School, Gay

  "Chelsea Handler Tells Katie Couric, 'Well, I Don't Make Jokes About Children'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. December 7, 2010.

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• I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

  Margaret Mahy

  Bears, Spite, Knows

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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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• It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Space, People, Old Friends

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Prestwick House Inc

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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 unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.

  Pat Conroy

  Keys, Solitude, Pay

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.80, Open Road Media

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness. The Lord knows your circumstances and your challenges. He said to Paul and to all of us, 'My grace is sufficient for thee.' And like Paul we can answer: 'My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me'(2 Corinthinans 12:9)".

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Perfect, Grace

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• I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Selfish, Simple

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

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• I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will--that is the part that's almost unbearable.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Encounters, Different, Needs

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• This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

  John Green

  Book, Library

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, March 3, 2005.

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• One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

  Franz Kafka

  Hate, Moving, Men

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• Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

  Danielle Steel

  Love Is, Painful, Absence

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• Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, Could Have Been, Has Beens

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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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• Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hurt, Ideas, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Routine, Jem And Scout

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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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

  Children, Night, Sometimes

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• I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Pain, Perfect

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