Unbearable Quotes

“Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate thoughts, the constraint of the room may become oppressive and the emptiness unbearable. The room loses then its original fullness and turns into a place of nothingness. ( " Another empty room" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If the whole world is in a rush and people are out of step with themselves, they fail to catch that quirky aura and that special quality of life that feeds our soul-searching frame of mind and that builds a coveted haven, giving recognition and self-reliance. ("The unbearable heaviness of being”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When relationships lose their pitch through lack of interest and become stale or unbearable through enduring stealthy backbiting, the emotional house of cards is under attack. A painstaking reshuffle, however, may brand a new choice of life and create energy for positive thinking, whereas remaining bogged down in dispiriting situations and staying clogged up with immaterial hassle may only spawn forlorn deadlocks.. ("Mes cliques et mes claques")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The moment we feel smothered by an unbearable emptiness in our lives, let us give way to the burning urge to 'suspend time,' and create space to build 'content' and ‘scope’ for a new reality. ("Words had disappeared”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands.
"Er," Magnus said. "Are you quite all right?"
"I was simply overcome," Imasu said in a faint voice.
Magnus preened slightly. "Ah. Well."
"By how awful that was," Imasu said.
Magnus blinked. "Pardon?"
"I can't live a lie any longer!" Imasu burst out. "I have tried to be encouraging. Dignitaries of the town have been sent to me, asking me to plead with you to stop. My own sainted mother begged me, with tears in her eyes - "
"It isn't as bad as all that - "
"Yes, it is!" It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavor now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in the lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death. The townspeople believe that you and I are performing arcane magic rituals - "
"Well, that one was rather a good guess," Magnus remarked.
" - using the skull of an elephant, an improbably large mushroom, and one of your very peculiar hats!"
"Or not," said Magnus. "Furthermore, my hats are extraordinary."
"I will not argue with that." Imasu scrubbed a hand through his thick black hair, which curled and clung to his fingers like inky vines. "Look, I know that I was wrong. I saw a handsome man, thought that it would not hurt to talk a little about music and strike up a common interest, but I don't deserve this. You are going to get stoned in the town square, and if I have to listen to you play again, I will drown myself in the lake."
"Oh," said Magnus, and he began to grin. "I wouldn't. I hear there is a dreadful monster living in that lake."
Imasu seemed to still be brooding about Magnus's charango playing, a subject that Magnus had lost all interest in. "I believe the world will end with a noise like the noise you make!"
"Interesting," said Magnus, and he threw his charango out the window.
"Magnus!"
"I believe that music and I have gone as far as we can go together," Magnus said. "A true artiste knows when to surrender."
"I can't believe you did that!"
Magnus waved a hand airily. "I know, it is heartbreaking, but sometimes one must shut one's ears to the pleas of the muse."
"I just meant that those are expensive and I heard a crunch.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

“Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“Failure is another emotion I cannot stand to feel, because in adult life I have conditioned myself not to fail at anything. Failure takes me straight back to the feelings of worthlessness I grew up with as a stammering, reclusive little boy.”
― Jake Wood , Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War

“I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.”
― Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

“The human brain can protect us from seeing and feeling what it believes may be too uncomfortable for us to tolerate. It can lead us to deny, defend, minimize, or rationalize away something that doesn’t fit our worldview.”
― Bandy X Lee, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

“Lucy nodded dutifully, all the while making a mental list of all the places she would rather be. Paris, Venice, Greece, although weren’t they at war? No matter. She would still rather be in Greece.

(On the Way to the Wedding, Bridgertons #8, by Julia Quinn)”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“And now it came. It was fiery, sharp, bright and ruthless, ready to kill, ready to die, outspeeding light: it was Charity, not as mortals imagine it, not even as it has been humanised for them since the Incarnation of the Word, but the translunary virtue, fallen upon them direct from the Third Heaven, unmitigated. They were blinded, scorched, defeaned. They thought it would burn their bones. They could not bear that it should continue. They could not bear that it should cease.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“It turns out, you can get used to almost anything. What one day seems a shocking, unbearable outrage over time comes to seem ordinary, unremarkable.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. I lived. It wasn't easy. And yet. I found out how little is unbearable.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“And she wondered now how she could go on existing through the successive moments of her life.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“I can't tell you—oh I can't tell you—how awful—how sort of unlivable—everything is now—like a great black wall in front of me—Something's got to smash.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“It didn't make me crazy. It made me unbearably anxious, preoccupied indignant and exhausted. I was faced with either surrendering my freedom in advance, or risking loosing it in the worst ways imaginable. One thing that makes people crazy is being told that the experiences they have did not actually happen. That the circumstances that hem them in are imaginary. That the problems are all in their head, and that if they are distressed, it is a sign of their failure. When success would be to shut up or to cease to know what they know. Out of this unbearable predicament come the rebels who choose failure and risk and the prisoners who choose compliance.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

“I don’t know how you
carry
an ancient knowing
or why you smell like dense stars
and church.
Everything is human nature
yet you are supernovas
piercing night’s heart
with your wounds of light.
 
I don’t know when you
learned
to dance with God
or why you paused to witness me.
Everything is eventual pain
yet you are time suspended
and blessings
constellating.
 
I don’t know why it had to be so
or why it couldn’t be anything else.
Every thing is an unbearable burden
yet here you are
—my universe’s
Amen.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Ordinary consciousness simply becomes pain.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“For a while everything became too terrible, one could scarcely bear to be conscious.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“It throbs, the pain coming in staggering pulses, like a second, ragged heartbeat. I cannot bring myself to do more than lie there and wait for it to ebb.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.”
― C S Lewis, C.S Lewis Signature Classics A Grief Observed/Miracles/the Problem of Pain/the Great Divorce/the Screwtape Letters/Mere Christianity [PB,2001]

“Hear me," she insists. "I shan't survive it, do you understand? If you get hurt. I shan't survive it.”
― Emma Richler, Be My Wolff

“So many days had passed since he had left her but the disorder that she had brought into his world had not left him. He thought of her many times during the day. Not being able to see her made him feverish. At nights he slept with emptiness filling his embrace. Life without her was unbearable and he longed to return to her.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“Persistent annoyances tend to become either unbearable or accepted as normal, irrespective of any impact on the mentality of overall health.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“It is impossible to carry out God's assignment without involving Him in every aspect of the assignment and your life. The assignment will be overwhelming and the burden unbearable to an ordinary human soul”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“I wanted to get out of my body; I had to escape the stain of what I'd done; I had to get out- I couldn't endure the blood on my hands, the sticky warmth between my fingers.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Will it ever stop?' he mused, more to himself than me... 'Wanting you- every hour, every breath. I don't think I can stand a thousand years of this.' ... 'Think of how my productivity will plummet.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“And he said...

...silence is what will make the pain unbearable.”
― Anthony T. Hincks