Top 100 Bearable Quotes

#1. Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?

Andrew Ashling

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#2. Poetry was a barrier against raw
emotions. It distilled them into bearable
music, allowed one to accommodate them
a little at a time.

Alexander Moncrieffe

Julie Anne Long

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#3. Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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#4. Friends are people one pretends to like in order to make life bearable.

Joe Abercrombie

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#5. What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone's memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.

Andrea Lochen

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#6. All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

Miguel De Cervantes

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#7. Politicians are like dogs ... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

Henry Kissinger

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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#9. Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

Rowan Williams

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#10. I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

Monica Murphy

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#11. 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.

Suzanne Curchod

Bearable Quotes #129329
#12. I wish that you will find love. It is the only thing in life that makes the pain of being alive bearable.

Lucinda Riley

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#13. Reading is still the most bearable of all forms of disgust.

Thomas Bernhard

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#14. As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I choose to hate you ... to make my love bearable.

Rick Yancey

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#15. If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

Ryan Reynolds

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#16. Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

Harold Bloom

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#17. Almost any situation is bearable if you have a home to go back to and a family who will stand by you. With

George Orwell

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#18. A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Aberjhani

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#19. Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Philip James Bailey

Bearable Quotes #216800
#20. We all die someday. Maybe the only thing that makes that fact bearable is the idea that death is the only way we can return to the stars.

Beth Revis

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#21. In fact, my mother always says that emotions are what the gods gave us to distract us from the pain of life. They are what make life bearable and what keeps us going no matter how hard it gets. (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#22. Absurdity is all that makes grief bearable

David Vann

Bearable Quotes #268147
#23. People always mean well, but they don't understand that when you're seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive. Just knowing there's an out - even if it's bloody, even if it's permanent - makes the pain almost bearable for one more day.

Terri Cheney

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#24. Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.

Mark Pryor

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#25. The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them.

Rosamunde Pilcher

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#26. I still think that, sometimes, 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.

John Green

Bearable Quotes #275044
#27. 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 your life a day later. We don't get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.

Gail Caldwell

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

Emil Cioran

Bearable Quotes #309223
#29. There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

Mark Strickson

Bearable Quotes #310067
#30. The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

Wayne Muller

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#31. All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.

Isak Dinesen

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#32. Talking to adults is bearable; it's talking to people my age that's impossible.

Tabitha Suzuma

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#33. Literature, for example, serves a pragmatic purpose. Like any form of Art, literature's mission is to make the fulfillment of our essential duties more bearable.

Muriel Barbery

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#34. Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

Ernest Cline

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

Margaret Mead

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#36. If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

Emmanuelle Beart

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#37. There is nothing that makes the unbearable bearable.

Melissa Kantor

Bearable Quotes #376552
#38. When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.

Sharon E. Rainey

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#39. This was the nurse Rehv hoped he would get each time he came in.
This was the one who made these visits even partially bearable.
This was his Ehlena.

-Rehv's thoughts

J.R. Ward

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#40. This girl who equally drove me crazy and made me care about her more than I should. She was the only one who understood. The only one who could help make what I was more bearable, even if she occasionally tortured me in the process.

Stacey Kade

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#41. If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#42. Friends make the world bearable. It's an honor of sorts. Of all the people that a person knows, they pick you to be their friend, and you try to be worthy of that friendship.

Ilona Andrews

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#43. It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.

Robyn Davidson

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#44. Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

David Johansen

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#45. It's socialism that makes it bearable for us to live under capitalism.

Arnaldur Indridason

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#46. This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

Viktor E. Frankl

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#47. I have always taken great comfort in newspapers. No matter how horrid an event, there is something in seeing it described in black and white that makes it somehow bearable.

Susan Higginbotham

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#48. Anna took her solace where she always did. The smell of the earth, the touch of the sky held for her a special alchemy, able to turn loneliness into aloneness, and so make it, if not sacred, at least bearable.

Nevada Barr

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#49. When life has meaning, you can bear almost anything; without it, nothing is bearable.

Rick Warren

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#50. Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

James Rachels

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#51. Bad experience is more bearable when you are not the only sufferer.
~pg 95

Nien Cheng

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#52. Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#53. If I have to live in Elysium for eternity with someone I don't love, I thought maybe a kiss from you, even just one, would make it bearable.

Mia Sheridan

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#54. An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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#55. If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

Deanna Raybourn

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#56. Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.

Emil Cioran

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#57. 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.

Donella Meadows

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#58. 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.

Ivan Krastev

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#59. Love should be a staple in our history book. Wasn't it an act of love when the god of the sky chose to keep us? Isn't love what makes living bearable, and unbearable?" -Daphne Leander

Lauren DeStefano

Bearable Quotes #576258
#60. When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

Marcus Aurelius

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#61. Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it...

M. Scott Momaday

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#62. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

Fran Lebowitz

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#63. With Tennessee there to visit, Regina Cleri had been bearable to him, and without her he felt like what he was: a useless old man who had been shelved away to die.

Ann Patchett

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#64. Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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#65. Love and hope," she said. "That's life to me. Love for all the good that happens to you and the people you care about, and hope that any pain will be bearable or lessen in time.

Emma Scott

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#66. We all have little tricks we play on our minds to make life bearable.

Courtney Cole

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#67. It caught me sometimes: that this was okay. Just this. That simple beauty was still bearable barely, and that if I lived moment to moment, garden to stove to the simple act of flying, I could have peace.

Peter Heller

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#68. Disappointment tears the bearable film of life.

Elizabeth Bowen

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#69. Loving him didn't fix anything. Loving him didn't change anything. Loving him simply made everything else bearable.

P.C. Cast

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#70. Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Bram Stoker

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#71. It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.

Harper Lee

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#72. To choose to live, to make that choice to fight for life every day, had to be a choice to accept all the sorrows of all of my tomorrows. But if that choice to live was to be bearable at all, I needed to let loose my embrace of the pain, both yesterday's and tomorrow's.

Bobby Adair

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#73. You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

Clara Barton

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#74. I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of super-models, that's how much I hate mobs. I tell you, mankind is bearable only when you get him on his own.

Steve Toltz

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#75. The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.

Cheryl Strayed

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#76. For, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can make them more bearable.

Bram Stoker

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#77. The new delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable.

Gustave Flaubert

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#78. To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows!

Ivan Turgenev

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#79. I like the way you make the silence bearable.

T.M. Frazier

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#80. And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap.

Paul Beatty

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#81. She and I are two unhappy ones who keep together and carry our burdens together, and in this way unhappiness is changed to joy, and the unbearable becomes bearable.

Vincent Van Gogh

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#82. The happiness of others is never bearable for very long ...

Francoise Sagan

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#83. For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

Lionel Messi

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#84. If time were a bolt of cloth," said Om, "I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.

Rohinton Mistry

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#85. 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.

Jasinda Wilder

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#86. The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.

Mary Ann Shaffer

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#87. The arts..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.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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#88. Our life together wasn't easy. We had plenty of heartbreak, plenty of sorrow. But we also had each other. We'd fought to have each other ... as long as we had each other, anything was bearable. Anything was possible.

Katy Regnery

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#89. Only those with guts could bear a great life.

Toba Beta

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#90. Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality - the deception was bearable.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#91. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

Cassandra Clare

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#92. If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

Beth Moore

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#93. Switzerland is only bearable covered with snow," Aunt Augusta said, "like some people are only bearable under a sheet.

Graham Greene

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#94. No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.

Melina Marchetta

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#95. Solitude is bearable only with God.

Andre Gide

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#96. There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

Rufus Wainwright

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#97. Wisdom makes things possible. Gratitude makes things bearable. Hope makes things manageable. Joy makes things pleasurable. Love makes things wonderful.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#98. Do not worry solitude is friendly at least it is more bearable than the company of hypocrites

Yasser Kashef

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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#100. If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

Horst Koehler

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