#unbearable

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

#below #brute #brute force #force #hitting

If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein! ↗

— Milan Kundera

#es-muss-sein #excitement #freedom #god #love

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

#establish #everything #explosion #including #israel

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

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

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

— Alice Walker

#deeply #i #i love #incredibly #insanely

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