Supportable Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore… — Joseph Addison
• As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain,… — Clifford Geertz
• A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. — Ambrose Bierce
• Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton
• renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the… — Ambrose Bierce
• We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable… — Marjane Satrapi
• It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may… — Joseph Conrad
• There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a… — John Wyndham
• The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. — Michel de Montaigne

Who Wrote These Supportable Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Supportable Quotes as follows:

• 2 Supportable Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Supportable Quote by Joseph Addison
• 1 Supportable Quote by Clifford Geertz
• 1 Supportable Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
• 1 Supportable Quote by Marjane Satrapi
• 1 Supportable Quote by Joseph Conrad
• 1 Supportable Quote by John Wyndham
• 1 Supportable Quote by Michel de Montaigne