#bearable

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

#love #men #otherwise #simply #them

I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#almost #became #conceivable #explosions #fascinated

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

#despair #drives #eternity #glimpse #like

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#die #having #idea #lived #unbearable

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#bearable #being #broadcast #disk #due

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#civilization #less #top #unbearable

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful. ↗

— Robert Plant

#beautiful #go #i #i think #love

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#bearable #creatures #only #small #such

It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#baby #changes #cope #difficult #father

I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#old #portia-de-rossi #reality #unbearable-lightness #age