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Letter "B" » bearable
«I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.»
«Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom»
Author: Francis Picabia
(Illustrator, Painter)
| About:
Boredom,
Nature
| Keywords:
bearable, equality, inequalities, inequality, monotony, unfair
«If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.»
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
ambiguities, bearable, joys, Other side, side, startle, startling, sudden, The other side, tragedies, verified, verifies, verifying
«Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime / I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bearable, childish, consideration, inflicts, pastime, referring, undignified
«A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.»
«For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bearable, creatures, such as, vastness
«The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
alternative, bearable, bred, breeding ground, close set, closing, day in day out, describe, doom, dot, dots, dotted, immolate, incapable, inexorably, postulate, postulates, preaches, presently, Prophecies, prophet, randomly, situate, situated, situating, spill, The Prophet, The Trap, torches, trap, tremendous
«We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
bearable
«Solitude is bearable only with God»
«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.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bearable, broadcast, broadcasting, broadcasts, disk, disk jockey, due to, jockey, jockeys, not allowed, not due, radio, radio news, The News
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