Cannot Bear Quotes

123 quotes by 111 authors

If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your… — Loren Eiseley
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More
God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play. — Emily Dickinson
We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education… — Lyndon B. Johnson
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a… — Andrew Solomon
The Evangelistic Harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men and of nations is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible… — Billy Graham
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of… — Lawrence Durrell
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and… — Ellen G. White
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both… — Albert Camus
What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne. — Marcus Aurelius
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear. — Carson McCullers
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he… — Martin Luther
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things â€“ once commenced â€“ only out of… — A. S. Byatt
Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able. — Corrie Ten Boom
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody… — May Sarton
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear… — Charlotte Bronte
I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his… — Jodi Picoult
There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you… — Soren Kierkegaard

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