Quotes About Bearable

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

and we are to each other for ever what was bearable only in my intuition of its impermanence. Death doesn't change things, then. It merely petrifies things for those who go on living.

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

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

We entered a period in which every moment was weighted with both the absolute necessity of hope and a terrible and almost unbearable anticipation of the worst.

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.

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

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.

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

If time were a bolt of cloth ... I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.

Perhaps there was no real point to our existence–or none that we could discern–and that meant that the real question that had to be asked was this: How can I make my life bearable? We are here whether we like it or not, and by and large we seem to have a need to continue. In that case, the real question to be addressed is: How are we going to make the experience of being here as fulfilling, as good as possible? That

Perhaps there was no real point to our existence–or none that we could discern–and that meant that the real question that had to be asked was this: How can I make my life bearable? We are here whether we like it or not, and by and large we seem to have a need to continue. In that case, the real question to be addressed is: How are we going to make the experience of being here as fulfilling, as good as possible?

In a life where there is only the bearable and the unbearable, a sigh of relief is an ecstasy.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

If time were a bolt of cloth," said Om, "I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.

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

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)

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

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

But aren't journals such as this basically occasions for candid assessments? No. They're not. They're for telling oneself the fictions that are as honest as you can make them and still keep your life bearable.

That is one of the conceptions most difficult for stupid people to grasp. They always suppose some ponderable alteration will make the human condition more bearable. The only hope of survival is the realisation that no such thing could possibly happen.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.