When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who… — Lionel Messi Copy Share Image
The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story.… — Mark Strickson Copy Share Image
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work… The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
“If time were a bolt of cloth ... I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable. — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common. — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable. — Sam Francis Copy Share Image
I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless. — Monica Murphy Copy Share Image
“When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.” — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
“She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
