Bearable Quotes

“There’s no magical healing in this. I won’t wake up tomorrow fixed and joyful. I’ll still hurt and grieve. But moments like this, with Colton? They make it all bearable. He doesn't fix me, doesn't heal me. He just makes life worthwhile. He helps me remember to breathe, shows me how to smile again. He kisses me, and I can forget pain, forget the urges I still have to cut for the pain that erases the emotions.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You

“A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing.”
― J.D. Salinger

“Cold was easier to bear when you'd never been warm.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“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, The Four Stages of Cruelty

“Only those with guts could bear a great life.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.”
― Sharon E. Rainey, The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal

“Somehow each of the three bears figured out exactly what was comfortable for them. And yet despite the obvious differences, they did not try to impose their preferences on the rest of the family. And if we can take a lesson from that, maybe that would make our society a bit more bearable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A gut wound will drop a man in his tracks every time. Harper always found it more personal than bullets, getting right up into someone. It made the war bearable.”
― Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls

“It’s having no foresight that makes the temporary unbearable.”
― A. Lynn, Itsy's Ugly

“If a memoir needs a reason, mine is simply that wonderful things become even more wonderful for me if I can share them and dreadful things more bearable.”
― Sheila Dhar, "Here's Someone I'd Like You to Meet": Tales of Innocents, Musicians and Bureaucrats