Top 61 Life Bearable Quotes
#1. Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#2. Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?
Andrew Ashling
#4. Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
Finley Peter Dunne
#5. 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.
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.
Jon Stewart
#13. 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
#14. Friends are people one pretends to like in order to make life bearable.
Joe Abercrombie
#15. I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.
Monica Murphy
#16. 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
#17. Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
Ernest Cline
#18. 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
#19. We all have little tricks we play on our minds to make life bearable.
Courtney Cole
#20. 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
#21. She didn't mind the sacrifice. It seemed enough for a life, to give yourself to music the way nuns give themselves to God. To vow. To surrender. Only music, after all, made life bearable. Only with music did she feel--what was it? Free? Happy? No, it was something else. Awake.
Carolina De Robertis
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
Sam Francis
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.
Josephine Hart
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.
Geoff Dyer
#34. 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
#35. Love did not conquer all; it only made life more bearable for a short time before it consumed its victims.
Heather Webb
#36. 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
#37. The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
Gloria Steinem
#38. 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
#39. Life is a dreary continuum made bearable by those moments of excitement. It's called feeling alive.
Lee Monroe
#40. 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
#41. Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
R. K. Milholland
#42. 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
#43. Politicians are like dogs ... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
Henry Kissinger
#44. I wish that you will find love. It is the only thing in life that makes the pain of being alive bearable.
Lucinda Riley
#45. A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
Aberjhani
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
Emil Cioran
#49. When life has meaning, you can bear almost anything; without it, nothing is bearable.
Rick Warren
#50. If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?
Deanna Raybourn
#51. 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
#52. The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable
Charles Bukowski
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#57. 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.
#58. 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
#59. Only those with guts could bear a great life.
Toba Beta
#60. 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
#61. Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
Honore De Balzac
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