Bearable Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

— Mignon McLaughlin

I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of…

— Charles Kingsley

Part of the failing of mainstream history has been a reverential air often appended to the colonial era, underpinned by a rose-tinted nostalgia for…

— Dawn Foster

Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the…

— Denis Johnson

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

— Jodi Picoult

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

— Margaret Mead

You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved…

— Gail Caldwell

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

— Erica Jong

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a…

— Andrew Sullivan

“shared pain is more bearable.”

— Isabel Allende

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away…

— Paulo Coelho