Bears Quote by Margaret Drabble Download Open image “The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.” — Margaret Drabble ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bears Gloom Human mind Humans Intermittent Mind Plenty Psychology Reality Sad Too much
(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a… — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a… — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One of the reviews says the book "radiates happiness and optimism". When I think of the conditions of worry and gloom and care under which it was written I wonder at this. Thank God, I can keep the shadows of my life out of my work. I would not wish to darken any other life - I want instead to… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share
Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination;… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
“Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?” — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money,… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they sour, they devour, and they can… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold… — James McBride Copy Share Image
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