“ Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. ”
- Bob Hope- Copy
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“ You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable. ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
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“ To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
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“ It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. ”
- Georges Courteline- Copy
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“ I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. ”
- Eugene Forsey- Copy
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“ To lose one's life is a little thing and I shall have the courage to do so if it is necessary; but to see the meaning of this life dissipated, to see our reason for existing disappear, that is what is unbearable. One cannot live without meaning. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. ”
- Yasser Arafat- Copy
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“ What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self… ”
- John Boorman- Copy
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“ There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable. ”
- Fawn M. Brodie- Copy
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“ The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomer… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness — if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor — but as I am I must call it laziness… ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft. ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
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“ It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances… ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
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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 unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this… ”
- Claire Weeks- Copy
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