Bearable Quotes

113 quotes by 100 authors

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain,… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding. — James Rachels
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)… — John Green
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. — Finley Peter Dunne
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable. — Francine du Plessix Gray
The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was… — Robyn Davidson
The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. — Jodi Picoult
You canâ€™t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didnâ€™t make the mistake that might have saved your… — Gail Caldwell
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte… — Dinaw Mengestu
Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left… — John Banville
The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden… — Henry Hazlitt
The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable,… — Robert Frost
What you do in the presentâ€”by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy,… — N. T. Wright
Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes… — Tom Robbins
Hell is more bearable than nothingness. — Philip James Bailey
Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable. — Rowan Williams
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable… — Simon Conway Morris
I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice. — Millicent Fenwick
Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable. — Josephine Hart
Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut

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