"We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we……" — Andrew Solomon

More Bear Quotes

This quote is filed under Bear Quotes, one of 2,639 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine
• Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius
• Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a… — Marcus Aurelius
• What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will… — Teresa of Avila
• The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
• Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear… — Lord Acton
• There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the… — Lord Acton
• I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a… — Amy Adams
• Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac
• Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the… — Bob Barr
• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man… — Henry Ward Beecher

See all 2,639 Bear Quotes »