Top 100 Tolerable Quotes
#1. It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If
Kay Redfield Jamison
#2. Human beings are children of the Earth. Whereas our common Mother Earth has tolerated our conduct up to now, she is showing us at present that we have reached the limits of what is tolerable.
Dalai Lama XIV
#3. Death was unpleasant, but it was a familiar and tolerable ache in his chest.
Nora Sakavic
#5. On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.
H.L. Mencken
#6. It seems quite bizarre how much I loved one big bundle of all of my demons, but that may have been his core appeal. If he could embrace me, there was a chance I could become tolerable, even passable in those worlds that considered me a plague.
Maggie Young
#7. Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Bergen Evans
#8. It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Robert Hass
#9. The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.
George Soros
#10. People like Josh Bennett and I don't get perfect. Most of the time, we don't even get remotely tolerable. And that's why it scares me. Because, even if there was such a thing to begin with, perfect never lasts.
Katja Millay
#11. Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.
Benjamin Tucker
#12. How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that bleeds! How easy it is to look death in the face when it's another man's turn!
Irene Nemirovsky
#13. Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.
Camilla Gibb
#14. Just as I had formed a tolerable establishment my travels commenced, and on my return I find all to do over again; my former flock were all scattered; some married, not before it was needful.
George Gordon Byron
#15. A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.
Francis Thompson
#16. Remember, however, that thou art formed by nature to bear everything, with respect to which it depends on thy own opinion to make it endurable and tolerable, by thinking that it is either thy interest or thy duty to do this.
Marcus Aurelius
#17. What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#18. Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.
Michelle Franklin
#19. There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.
Ban Ki-moon
#20. I felt a rush of trust
felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.
David James Duncan
#21. At twenty two, he didn't have the foresight to understand how one decision could affect so many others. Now that he's older and everything has settled into a just-tolerable state of atrophy, the options he once had-options that his young students still have- feel like they've passed him by.
Jung Yun
#22. Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
Mignon McLaughlin
#23. Manners can make a very uncomfortable situation more tolerable.
Grace Lozada
#24. Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain that all five of them were capable of fending for themselves; that they could make tolerable fortunes as bodyguards, assassins, or mercenaries if need be.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#25. Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
H.L. Mencken
#27. It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.
Donna Tartt
#28. We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.
Epictetus
#29. To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.
Lord Chesterfield
#30. It wasn't that pain grew tolerable or the confusion went away. Instead, it simply became familiar. It became a part of you.
Hugh Howey
#31. The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.
Timothy Ferriss
#32. The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections.
Richard A. Epstein
#33. Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.
Thomas Hardy
#34. The best known evil is the most tolerable.
Livy
#35. I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.
Andrew Lansley
#36. Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#37. Remind me why I'm doing this again?" I whispered back.
"For your real friends, of course: Me, Caleb, and Chad."
"That's sweet of you to say, but I'm not sure we're all friends. Mr. Darcy over here," I indicated Caleb with a nod, "finds me barely tolerable.
Amy Helmes
#38. Data itself ... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.
Dan Simmons
#39. Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#41. Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
Jorge Luis Borges
#42. If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.
Russell Brand
#43. In India the choice could never be between chaos and stability, but between manageable and unmanageable chaos, between humane and inhuman anarchy, and between tolerable and intolerable disorder. ASHIS NANDY, sociologist, 1990.
Ramachandra Guha
#44. Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
Jonathan Swift
#45. Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.
Thomas Jefferson
#46. Case - a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.
Timothy Ferriss
#47. There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
R.A. Salvatore
#48. A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.
Tallulah Bankhead
#49. A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
Ovid
#50. What end but love, that stares death in the eye?
Sing me a song to make death tolerable, a song
of a man and a woman: the riddle of a man
and a woman.
Joseph N. Riddel
#51. Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.
Eyvind Johnson
#52. Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.
Nicholas Von Hoffman
#53. I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
John James Audubon
#54. Ballet, too, was made more tolerable when observed from a barstool.
Tim Sultan
#55. There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.
William Hazlitt
#57. Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.
Stephen Jones
#58. We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#59. I'm very lucky with the people that recognise me - it's at a very tolerable level. I don't think I could handle the level of recognition which David Beckham has.
Sean Maguire
#60. The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
Walter Lippmann
#61. All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.
William, Saroyan
#62. Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.
Jane Austen
#64. Pam said, Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most ...
Charlaine Harris
#65. The open door smiling proudly with both of their sons. It was called love. The hardest thing in the world to find and keep, but the one thing that made the worst imaginable hell tolerable. More than hope, it was truly the light that guided the lost to
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#66. Good heavens." Wolfe pushed back his chair, not of course with violence, but with determination. "Archie. Understand this. As a man of action you are tolerable, you are even competent. But I will not for one moment put up with you as a psychologist. I
Rex Stout
#67. The Chosen Layla was what had changed everything for him, recasting the Brotherhood from target to tolerable, from enemy to co-existable tenant in the world. In
J.R. Ward
#68. I prefer that these reserves be spent in arguing whether Mary conceived without sin, whether Christ was God or man, rather than discussing whether my power is of divine origin and if, in short, I am deserving of it. Heresy, then, is tolerable as long as it is not employed directly against power.
Carlos Fuentes
#70. The kind-hearted won't inherit the earth but they make it a tolerable place to live.
Marty Rubin
#71. Time makes things tolerable. Time gives you perspective on events that shake your world to the core. Time allows you to move forward. But time doesn't change the pain that sits in your gut.
R.L. Griffin
#72. The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.
Azar Nafisi
#73. And that's why I've chosen to write these pages as I've written them. For only by stepping into the middle zone, the polychrome edge between truth and untruth, is it tolerable to be here and writing this at all.
Donna Tartt
#74. Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.
Vincent Van Gogh
#75. With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.
Gene Simmons
#77. Medication can make a bad situation tolerable and mask the need for change.
Julie Holland
#78. We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.
Albert Einstein
#79. As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!
Upton Sinclair
#80. A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.
John Stuart Mill
#81. The York magicians had all looked over the letter and expressed their doubts that any body with such small handwriting could ever make a tolerable magician.
Susanna Clarke
#82. Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.
Henry Wallich
#83. By confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past
William Hardy McNeill
#84. Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
Learned Hand
#85. I leave the outdoors to you. It is too warm out there to read comfortable, and summer, like many uncomfortable things, is as welcome as a dim woman. It is tolerable to look at, but after being made to interact with it, nobody wants anything to do with it.
Michelle Franklin
#86. Childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun.
(Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.)
Shulamith Firestone
#87. It's good for him. No man should get every woman he wants. Keeps their douchebaggery to a tolerable level.
Jamie McGuire
#88. He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.
Isabel Allende
#89. I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.
Robert Breault
#90. The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws.
Russell Kirk
#91. But over these past few weeks, her existence has become tolerable. At least, out on the beaches, her privation and fear are rinsed away by wind and color and light. Most
Anthony Doerr
#92. She had missed him so long now, that the feeling had become a part of her. As each day passed, the missing distanced itself from her heart. One day she woke, and realized the missing was there but the pain was gone. Missing without pain is tolerable. Pain linked to heartache is intolerable.
Coco J. Ginger
#93. To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.
Clark Ashton Smith
#94. An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#95. Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action
Brendan Brazier
#96. Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.
Alexander Hamilton
#97. Maybe if you could put him on mute ... and cut off his hands ... maybe - just maybe - he'd be tolerable then.
Kody Keplinger
#98. I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.
Allen Shawn
#99. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
#100. School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn't so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.
Susane Colasanti
