#bearable

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#doings #evil #history #human #human history

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#brothel #had #me #part #payment

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

Love is a battle" she said smiling, "And I plan on going fighting 'til the end." "Love is a battle? well, I don’t feel at all like fighting," and he left. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#love

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

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#happy #how #out #people #times

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

— Erich Fromm

#die #having #idea #lived #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

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

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

#knowledge #life #longing #love #mankind