“Just remember… life without me would be even more unbearable.”

“Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.”

Geoff Dyer (1958) English writer

“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

“Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it”

Frank Beddor American skier and writer

“Remember that life is full of ups and downs. Without the downs, the ups would mean nothing.”

Ralph Smart

“Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

“Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.”

Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) Novelist, short story writer, teacher

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”

Jane Austen book Emma