Bearable Quotes - Page 6

• Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Years, Soul, Suffering

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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

  Bram Stoker

  Sympathy, Condolences, Facts

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• 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

  Depression, Pain, Dark

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Jan 11, 2012

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• Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Nostalgia, Lost

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll either wait for you in the Goddess’s meadow, or she’ll be reborn and her soul will find you again during this lifetime. You can bear it because you know that spirit never really ends-we never really end.

  P. C. Cast

  Voice, Broken, Waiting

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• Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable

  Tarryn Fisher

  Weight, Littles, Lifting

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• There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.

  George Eliot

  Work, Men, Squares

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.60

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• 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

  Together, Unbreakable Bonds, Way

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.592, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.

  Francoise Sagan

  Long

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Fasting, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ifs

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• Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

  Honore de Balzac

  Memories, Forget, Capacity

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• The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.

  Jim Tully

  Moon, Night, Men

  Jim Tully (2004). “Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography”, p.167, AK Press

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• If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.

  Charlie Munger

  Mother, Son, Simple

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

  Israel Zangwill

  Long, Common, Tolerate

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• 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. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happy Life, Reflection, Roots

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• So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren't constantly berating yourself for being sad.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Hurt, Pain

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