Cannot Bear Quotes

123 quotes by 111 authors

I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us… — Dante Alighieri
Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ.… — Saint Boniface
Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear… — Susannah McCorkle
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. — Marshall McLuhan
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. — Charles James
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel… — E L Doctorow
They have to die and their houses should be demolished so that they cannot bear any more terrorists . . . are all our enemies… — Ayelet Shaked
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear. — Horace
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being… — Moliere
Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not… — Eric Hoffer
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die. — William Penn
While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. — Isak Dinesen
Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. — Samuel Johnson
Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with… — Ezekiel Hopkins
You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest… — Gore Vidal
Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed;… — Henry Thomas Buckle
Love is a hell you cannot bear. — Fiona Apple
I cannot bear Netanyahu, heâ€™s a liar, — Nicolas Sarkozy
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others — Benjamin Franklin

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