unbearable

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.

The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.

I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.

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" )

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession

_ she claimed it__ a sign of God__ mercy that He won__ let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we can__ bear and won__ let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse, they pale away. At least such was her thinking. God lays the unbearable on you and then takes some back.

Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.

The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

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_)

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.

Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?

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")

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Life without decency is unbearable.

Denial is a very effective human trick. People often tell how a situation was "unbearable," though, clearly, they have borne it. Lived to tell, so to speak.

Unspeakable feelings need to find expression in words. However... verbalization of very intense feelings may be a difficult task.