Top 100 Bearable Quotes

#1. (A)t least simulated vulnerability is bearable/for those/who cannot/withstand unreasonable tenderness.

Chelsey Minnis

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#2. 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 ...

Katherine Anne Porter

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#3. Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be.

Javier Marias

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#4. As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

Jon Stewart

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#5. Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Donna VanLiere

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#6. Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.

Christopher Earle

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#7. Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.

Helen Kieran Reilly

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#8. The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.

Henry Hazlitt

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#9. What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.

Sam Francis

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#10. Change, I've come to understand, rises up like nausea: the promise of relief is what makes it bearable.

Durga Chew-Bose

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#11. 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.

Jasinda Wilder

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#12. The law is not designed to make us honorable, only bearable.

Marie C. Malaro

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#13. Remembrance is a strange thing. With love its pain is bearable. With bitterness it simply destroys.

Elaine Di Rollo

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#14. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#15. Parts of my soul had always been missing, but I felt whole for the first time. The emptiness inside of me was gone and had been replaced by a warm glow that made my entire world look brighter and more bearable. I had to have more.

Elizabeth Garrison

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#16. I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.

Graham Greene

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#17. Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation ... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

Leonard Woolf

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#18. Humans weren't made to carry someone else's weight. We can barely lift our own."
"Maybe lifting someone else's weight makes yours a little more bearable

Tarryn Fisher

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#19. I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.

Chris Crutcher

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#20. The funny thing about work itself, it was so bearable. The dreariest task was perfectly bearable. It presented challenges to overcome, the distraction provided by a sense of urgency, and the things made work utterly, even harmoniously bearable.

Joshua Ferris

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#21. When I'm with him, I feel like a completely different person. I like the way this person feels. And then I wonder - is this the person I really am?
How can you know for certain what parts of yourself are authentic and what parts you've invented to make life bearable?

Lisa Wingate

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#22. He wasn't a religious man but a vision of what Paradise might be came to him, a windowed room afloat on an endless sea, walls packed floor to ceiling with all the books ever written or dreamed of. It was nearly enough to make giving up the world bearable.

Michael Crummey

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#23. Belonging is one of the things that makes life bearable, and it can be tough to look at a binary world and choose against both sides.

Andrew Solomon

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#24. Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

Josephine Hart

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#25. Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth a lie.

David Levithan

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#26. There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

David Levithan

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

Keith Hollihan

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#28. Thanks for being my best friend and making my life bearable. Oh, and sorry I fell in love with you for a while there.

Leigh Bardugo

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#29. If it can be verified, we don't need faith ... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Madeleine L'Engle

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#30. It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by becoming bearable.

Victor Hugo

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#31. Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant."
"Is it only lies that are Pleasant?"
"Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable.

Penelope Mortimer

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#32. The only bearable thing about being human is that you can change, the second you feel like. Get it through your head that you changed, and cut yourself some slack before you fucking choke to death from all the apologies in your throat.

C.M. McKenna

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#33. Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

N. Scott Momaday

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#34. There are memories that time does not erase ... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

Cassandra Clare

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#35. Life can seem awful and unfixable until the universe shifts a little and the observation point is altered, and then suddenly, everything seems more bearable.

Jasmine Warga

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#36. Life becomes bearable only when one comes to terms with who one is, both in one's own eyes and in the eyes of the world.

Sandor Marai

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#37. I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

John Green

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#38. The only thing that can last longer than the scars we all carry, is the love that makes it bearable. Beautiful and broken, we are beloved.

Perci T. Brooks

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#39. I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable ... has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.

T.H. White

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#40. Time would heal, Mrs. Sussex said. Byron's loss would grow more bearable. But here was the crux. He didn't want to lose his loss. Loss was all he had left of his mother. If time healed the gap, it would be as if she had never been there. One

Rachel Joyce

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#41. 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.

Oliver Sacks

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#42. 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.

Thomas Pynchon

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#43. Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.

Sherwood Smith

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#44. Life wasn't for the timid. It was harsh and it was biting.
But the one thing that made it bearable was the people you cared for. It was finding that light in the darkness. That peace in hell.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#45. Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

Honore De Balzac

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#46. Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

Geoff Dyer

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#47. Rommel could smell the sea. At Torbruk the heat and the dust and flies were as bad as they had been in the desert, but it was all made bearable by that occasional whiff of salty dampness in the faint breeze.

Ken Follett

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#48. It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

Rose Kennedy

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#49. Terror finally becomes almost
bearable
but never quite
terror creeps like a cat
crawls like a cat
across my mind

Charles Bukowski

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#50. Everything seems more bearable since I have talked to you

George Eliot

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#51. Dear Juliet. I could relate to her pain. Black misery painted on a blood red heart. Death would be more bearable than life without Romeo.

Marilyn Grey

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#52. The death is a bearable certainty. If it would only hurry.

Dervis Susic

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#53. I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Millicent Fenwick

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#54. He cleared his throat, very carefully, to bring the stillness to a more bearable level without breaking the unwritten rule that governs both churches and freshly fallen blankets of snow.

Anna Mattaar

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#55. Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

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#56. It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

Robert Breault

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#57. Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them.

Robyn Schneider

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#58. 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.

Lauren Beukes

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#59. The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

Rene Descartes

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#60. Europe was best described, to his mind, as an elaborate engine for dissociating the confined American from that indispensable knowledge, and was accordingly only rendered bearable by these occasional stations of relief, traps for the arrest of wandering western airs.

Henry James

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#61. 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, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

Clifford Geertz

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

R. K. Milholland

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#63. Old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

M.F.K. Fisher

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#64. For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

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#65. The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect.

Swami Vivekananda

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#66. I lay down on the bed clasping the pictures and buried my face in the pillow in a vain attempt at silencing my sobs. But it was as if all my life's accumulated grief had finally found an outlet and was allowed to take its course. I screamed, I cried, until the grief became bearable. (174)

Linda Olsson

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#67. Life is a dreary continuum made bearable by those moments of excitement. It's called feeling alive.

Lee Monroe

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#68. The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

Edward Abbey

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#69. Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

Chris Martin

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#70. Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.

Lora Leigh

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#71. ...after twenty-five years of treating trauma survivors, I have learned that getting hit is actually one of the more bearable ways a person can be assaulted.

Martha Stout

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#72. I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

Robert Plant

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#73. All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.

George Santayana

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#74. Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

Finley Peter Dunne

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#75. When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

Lynda Barry

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#76. If being with Tate for a few short months can make that pain bearable enough for you to answer with maybe, imagine what a lifetime with her could do for you.

Colleen Hoover

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

Gloria Steinem

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#78. She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Neil Gaiman

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#79. It seems lies come very easily to your race. They lie to those they lead, to their mates and fellows no matter how close- drawn, even to themselves if it will make the world around them more bearable. It is hard to know what to believe in this place." Something

Richard K. Morgan

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#80. Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

Viktor E. Frankl

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#81. Love did not conquer all; it only made life more bearable for a short time before it consumed its victims.

Heather Webb

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#82. I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

Maurice Sendak

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

Israel Zangwill

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#84. My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms.

Marilynne Robinson

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

Bob Hope

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#86. Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Francis Picabia

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#87. 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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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#88. 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.

Agnes De Mille

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#89. No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable

Kay Redfield Jamison

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#90. God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When

Greg Iles

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#91. so that I came to regard it as at least a bearable place to hibernate till one might really live again.

H.P. Lovecraft

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#92. She had so much love to give - she had always felt that - and now there was somebody to whom she could give this love, and that, she knew, was good; for that is what redeems us, that is what makes our pain and sorrow bearable - this giving of love to others, this sharing of the heart.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#93. A man needs many things in his life to make it bearable. A good woman. Sons and daughters. Comradeship. Warmth. Food and shelter. But above all these things, he needs to be able to know that he is a man.

David Gemmell

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#94. Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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#95. In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade,

Margery Allingham

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#96. Friendship is love made bearable.

Rita Mae Brown

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#97. Sorrow was like sleeping on stone,he (Brenden)decided. You had to settle all its bumps and sharp edges, come to terms against them,fit them around until they became bearable, and then carry your bed wherever you went.

Patricia A. McKillip

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#98. It is clear to you, I know, Lucilius, that 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.

Seneca.

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#99. Mrs. Sussex said Byron's loss would grow more bearable. But here was the nub: he didn't want to lose his loss. Loss was all he had left of his mother. If time healed the gap, it would be as if she'd never been there.

Rachel Joyce

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#100. You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.

Carl Sagan

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