I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
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
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
“Finding any amount of peace in your day, can make the difficult times more bearable.” — Nancy B. Urbach Copy Share Image
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
“Why is life so difficult?” I sob. (…) “I don’t know. But I do know it’s more bearable if you’re not alone.” — Jen Minkman 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
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
“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
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
“It caught me sometimes: that this was okay. Just this. That simple beauty was still bearable barely, and that if I lived… — Peter Heller 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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“I lay down on the bed clasping the pictures and buried my face in the pillow in a vain attempt at silencing… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better… — John Green Copy Share Image
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
“The only course to pursue to make life bearable on such a day, at least for women (I speak not of men,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
