I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. Giuseppe Verdi
She tended to keep her eyes half closed, as if full sight of the world's absurdity might be too much to bear. Joan Slonczewski
In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear. Andrew Garfield