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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. -- Carl Sagan
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable. -- David Johansen
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful. -- Robert Plant
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. -- Bob Hope
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. -- Neil Gaiman
If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable. -- Ryan Reynolds
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
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything. -- Chris Martin
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed. -- Simon Conway Morris
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
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
Solitude is bearable only with God. -- Andre Gide
Hell is more bearable than nothingness. -- Philip James Bailey
It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. -- Robert Breault
The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable -- Charles Bukowski
Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray -- Cassandra Clare
If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable. -- Horst Kohler
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. -- Margaret Mead
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable. -- R. K. Milholland
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. -- Francis Picabia
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
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
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable. -- Maurice Sendak
If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable. -- Horst Kohler
I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy. -- Emil Cioran
What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable. -- Sam Francis
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
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
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
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
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
friendship is love made bearable. -- Rita Mae Brown
Disappointment tears the bearable film of life. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Beauty is only bearable when you're happy. -- Helen Kieran Reilly
As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable. -- Jon Stewart
Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable. -- Rowan Williams
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Beauty is only the start of bearable terror. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
The happiness of others is never bearable for very long ... -- Francoise Sagan
it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable. -- Rose Kennedy
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable. -- Honore de Balzac
Maybe lifting someone else's weight makes yours a little more bearable -- Tarryn Fisher
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. -- Harold Bloom
Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it. -- N. Scott Momaday
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable. -- Honore de Balzac
Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story. -- Isak Dinesen
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable. -- Marcus Aurelius
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. -- Bram Stoker
If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so? -- Deanna Raybourn
The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living. -- Wayne Muller
There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable. -- Cassandra Clare
As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common. -- Israel Zangwill
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless. -- Monica Murphy
In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other. -- Carl Sagan
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. -- Ernest Cline
Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable. -- Sherwood Smith
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had -- Mignon McLaughlin
Loving him didn't fix anything. Loving him didn't change anything. Loving him simply made everything else bearable. -- P. C. Cast
Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it. -- Geoff Dyer
Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. -- Jodi Picoult
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind -- Charles Bukowski
I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy. -- Emil Cioran
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding. -- James Rachels
old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. -- Erica Jong
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. -- Finley Peter Dunne
Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable. -- Josephine Hart
The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible. -- Joan D. Chittister
There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one. -- David Levithan
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. -- Aberjhani
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination. -- Gloria Steinem
She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. -- Neil Gaiman
I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable. -- Keith Hollihan
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
I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice. -- Millicent Fenwick
The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs. -- Robyn Davidson
There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable. -- Cassandra Clare
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. -- Carl Sagan
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
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
The with is shorter than the without, but the with makes the without bearable, as the shadow of memory is long and bright. Let this be a lesson in love. -- Jarod Kintz
I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills. -- Agnes de Mille
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
Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable. -- Marcel Proust
You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it. -- Clara Barton
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
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
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

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