Bearable Quotes - Page 3

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

  Deanna Raybourn

  Thinking, Purpose, Life Is

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.53, MIRA

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

  Harold Bloom

  Mediocrity, Want, Failing

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• Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

  Geoff Dyer

  Unbearable, Life Is, Terrible

  Geoff Dyer (2012). “Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence”, p.127, Canongate Books

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• Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes. You wouldn't take a vacation where you ride on a stage coach for two months but there's all-you-can-eat shrimp. You wouldn't take a vacation where you had an old-timey appendectomy without anesthesia while steel drums play. You might take a vacation while riding on a camel for two days IF they gave you those little animal towels wearing your sunglasses.

  Tina Fey

  Animal, Vacation, Play

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• Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Growing Up, Years

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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

  Ernest Cline

  Being Human, Videogame, Humans

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• The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

  Wayne Muller

  Pain, Fundamentals

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• When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

  Lynda Barry

  Art, Thinking, People

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• The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Differences, Life Is

  Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.239, City Lights Books

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• Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Pain, Remembrance, Deny

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• As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

  Clifford Geertz

  Strength, Religious, Pain

  Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.

  Sherwood Smith

  Sorry, Laughing, Appearance

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• I still 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. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

  John Green

  Pain, Loss, Thinking

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• 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

  Mother, Pain, Matter

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.193, Macmillan

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• 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

  Age, Demand, Noise

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• We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Morning, Pain

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• 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

  Art, Democracies Have, People

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• For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Distance, Romantic Love, Space

  Andrew Sullivan (1999). “Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival”, Vintage

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Saws, Belief

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• If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Grief, Support, Faults

  Letter to Jules Siegel, Cavalier magazine, August 1965.

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• Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Beauty

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• 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

  Government, People, Support

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• The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Purpose

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• Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

  Junot Diaz

  Love Is, Want, Possibility

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Mean, Perfection

  1934 Reflections on the End of an Era.

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