Best Bearable Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Somehow each of the three bears figured out exactly what was comfortable for them. And yet despite the obvious differences, they did not try to impose their preferences on the rest of the family. And if we can take a lesson from that, maybe that would make our society a bit more bearable.”

Source: The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal

“If a memoir needs a reason, mine is simply that wonderful things become even more wonderful for me if I can share them and dreadful things more bearable.”

Reason Wonderful Share Memoir Bearable Dreadful

Book:"Here's Someone I'd Like You to Meet": Tales of Innocents, Musicians and Bureaucrats

Source: "Here's Someone I'd Like You to Meet": Tales of Innocents, Musicians and Bureaucrats

“I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.”

Love Relationships Compassion Mystery Loneliness Human Distance Separation Inability Bearable

Book:The Four Stages of Cruelty

Source: The Four Stages of Cruelty

“A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing.”

Bearable The New Yorker Lillian Ross

Author:J.D. Salinger

“Cold was easier to bear when you'd never been warm.”

Cold Cat Warm Bearable Ink Blood Sister Scribe Emma Törzs Joanna Joanna Kalotay Used To It All Youve Ever Known

Book:Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“Only those with guts could bear a great life.”

Bearable Great Life Strong Stomach

Book:Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“A gut wound will drop a man in his tracks every time. Harper always found it more personal than bullets, getting right up into someone. It made the war bearable.”

Bearable

Book:The Shining Girls

Source: The Shining Girls

“It’s having no foresight that makes the temporary unbearable.”

Temporary Foresight Bearable

Book:Itsy's Ugly

Source: Itsy's Ugly

“There’s no magical healing in this. I won’t wake up tomorrow fixed and joyful. I’ll still hurt and grieve. But moments like this, with Colton? They make it all bearable. He doesn't fix me, doesn't heal me. He just makes life worthwhile. He helps me remember to breathe, shows me how to smile again. He kisses me, and I can forget pain, forget the urges I still have to cut for the pain that erases the emotions.”

Life Pain Hurt Forget Cutting Sweet Relief Urges Escape Falling Self Harm Bearable Fix Grieve Colton Falling Into You Jasinda Wilder Nell Si Cutter

Book:Falling Into You

Source: Falling Into You

“Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

Writing Wells Stories Rewards Radio Enormous Showers Bearable

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.”

Ifs Love Would Be Felt Imagine Horrible Bearable Horrible Things

Author:R. K. Milholland

“All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.”

Ifs Sorrow Bread Bearable

Book:Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote

Source: Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote

“One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.”

World Art Different Might Civilization Bearable

Author:Oliver Sacks

“Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.”

Men Kind Age Pain Suffering Serious Painful Illness Worthy Old Age Referring Bearable Pain And Suffering Suffering And Pain Suffering Pain Pain Suffering

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.”

Knows Literature Bearable

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.”

Mean Christian Grace Seeing Perfection Ultimate Invention Realization Priests Paradox Imperfection Assurance Theologian Apprehension Bearable Consoling

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable”

Littles Weight Lifting Bearable

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.”

Men Giving Long Work Four Weight Miserable Proportion Squares Sixteen Bearable Levers

Book:Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot

Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot

“Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.”

Ifs Reality Folly Indulge Indulge In Bearable

Author:Marcel Proust

“I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”

Ifs Stories Suffering Bearable

Author:Isak Dinesen

“In any trial, in any bitter situation, you are not alone, you are not helpless, you are not a victim. You have a tree, a cross, shown to you by the Sovereign God of Calvary. Whatever the trial or temptation, it is not more than you can bear. It is bearable. It can be handled. You can know as Joseph knew, "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive" (Genesis 50:20).”

People Knows Order Evil Results Situation Alive Tree Bears Crosses Victim Trials Bitter Temptation Preserves Helpless Sovereign Not Alone Genesis Bearable Calvary

Book:Beloved: From God's Heart to Yours

Source: Beloved: From God's Heart to Yours

“I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.”

Firsts Night Fear Differences Sleep Fatigue Unbearable Bearable

Author:Agnes de Mille

“Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.”

Two Form Speak Assuming Silent Stupidity Mute Bearable

Author:Honore de Balzac

“it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.”

Pain Tears Determination Bearable

Book:Whistler

Source: Whistler

“The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.”

Ifs Bigs Imagination Television Tvs Elsewhere Roof Bearable Antenna

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“friendship is love made bearable.”

Made Friendship Bearable

Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

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

Seems Happens Age Generations Divorce Coming Of Age Ritual Ceremony My Generation Bearable Scarring

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

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

Failing Alternatives Prophet Pessimism Traps Doom Bearable

Book:Culture and Commitment

Source: Culture and Commitment

“I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.”

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.”

Long Bearable

Author:Francoise Sagan

“The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.”

Purpose Bearable

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness; they care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.”

People Want Government Care Action Speak Nations Natural Support Politician Resources Greed Feathers Natural Resources Bearable Divisiveness

Author:Donella Meadows

“If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.”

Ifs World Grief Support Faults Bearable

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.”

Philosophy Belief Lost Saws Bearable

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.”

Persons Made Space Emotion Risk Distance Intimacy Romantic Love Friendship Love Bearable

Book:Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival

Source: Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival

“Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.”

People Art Leader Democracy Ideals Crisis Institutions Democratic Complaining Gaps Dissatisfaction Democracies Have Democratic Society Bearable

Author:Ivan Krastev

“We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.”

“Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention "the people," the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset... The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms... The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it "shall not be infringed."”

People Doe Law Political Politics Individual Term Community Existence Arms Members Six Constitution Instruments Amendments Provision Second Amendment Bearable

Author:Antonin Scalia

“The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.”

Age Rooms Existence Conditions Demand Expected Noise Old Age Bearable

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.”

Ifs Age Acceptance Old Age Being Loved Bearable

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

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

Done Easy Prayer Working It Fasting Bearable

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable”

Ifs Bearable

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.”

Memories Forget Capacity Bearable

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”

Funny Can Do Laughing Tears Humour Laughter Caring Hopeful Unbearable Bearable Humor And Laughter Humor Laughter Humour And Laughter

Author:Bob Hope

“The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.”

Source: Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography

“If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.”

Ifs Thinking Men Problem Reality Mother Turns Causes Simple Common Television Son Bears Terrible Painful Obvious Criminals Innocent Psychological Denial Turn-on Bearable

Author:Charlie Munger

“As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.”

Long Common Tolerate Bearable

Author:Israel Zangwill

“No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.”

Needs Made Important Given Clear Reflection Perfection Roots Conviction Deeper Noble Pursuit Resolution Happy Life Bearable

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.”

Want Feels Love Is Possibility Bearable

Author:Junot Diaz

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