Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Wurtzel

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.

Aimee Bender

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Arthur Rimbaud

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

He was a real tough, hard-nosed man that faced a situation that was almost unbearable and did a great job.

He had some stomach pains but he ignored them, being the tough guy that he is. He would think nothing of it. But I guess it became unbearable for him and he had to go to the hospital.

I am satisfied with the level of cooperation. I don't think that putting an unbearable pressure on Syria would really be very productive at this stage.

Rose Schneiderman

But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.

Robert A. Heinlein

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...

C. S. Lewis

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

C. S. Lewis

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

We have a sense that if we are exceptional parents, we will automatically produce exceptional children. It's unrealistic thinking, and it puts unbearable pressure on the child and the parent.

Catherine Deneuve

She's a great model. If she's ruining her personal life, that belongs to her. What she does in her private life is very private. I find it unbearable that maybe someone shot her (picture), stole the photos then sold them.

Charles Bukowski

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

Dennis Nilsen

I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime.

Gore Vidal

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.

Ada Louise Huxtable

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

Albert Einstein

I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

Allen Klein

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

E. M. Forster

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

It was unbearable to watch them. Who thinks losing feels good? It affects your life. It affects your family, everybody around you. It's a disappointment. It's been depressing. We still have one game to try to keep our heads up high, but basically it hurts.

Rachel Tucker

We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Wherever you live on this earth, and whatever your life's situation may be, I testify to you that 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.

Shyam Selvadurai

On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there.

We are hoping this time the Tigers will respond favorably and ease the violence that has reached unbearable levels in the north and east.

Diane Abbott

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

Chuck Jones

Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.

Andrei Lankov

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Anne Sexton

I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.

Anne Rice

Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.

Alice Walker

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Alice Morse Earle

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

Curtis Sittenfeld

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.

Duke Snider

He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.