Bearable Quotes - Page 2

• Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Loss, Forever

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• 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

  Fighting, Men, Body

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Dream, Cutting

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• Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

  Philip James Bailey

  Evil, Hell, Nothingness

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.36

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• 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

  Pain, Men, Suffering

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• 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

  Mistake, Choices, One Day

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• 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

  Art, Civilization, Different

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

  Aberjhani

  Art, Flower, Bird

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.

  Anais Nin

  Regret, Silence, Ease

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• 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

  Two, Numbers, Important

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• All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sorrow, Bread, Ifs

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.32

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

  R. K. Milholland

  Love, Would Be, Imagine

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• 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

  Grief, Faces, Bed

  Linda Olsson (2009). “Sonata for Miriam: A Novel”, p.114, Penguin

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• Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Disappointment, Tears, Film

  "The House in Paris".

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• 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

  Nature, Civilization, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Suffering, Spirit, Kind

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

  Monica Murphy

  Machines, Sometimes, Uncaring

  Monica Murphy (2016). “The Drew + Fable Series 4-Book Bundle: One Week Girlfriend, Second Chance Boyfriend, Three Broken Promises, Four Years Later”, p.30, Bantam

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• 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

  Self, Musical, Records

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• 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

  Children, People, Trying

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• Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Hurt, Miracle, Looks

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• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Teaching, Writing, Caring

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• When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hurt, Pain, Doe

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

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Acceptance, Age, Ifs

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• 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

  Hate, Love You, Long

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• We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Eye, Reality

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