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Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable. — Mindy Greenstein

The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo. — Timothy Ferriss

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. — George Bernard Shaw

It wasn't that pain grew tolerable or the confusion went away. Instead, it simply became familiar. It became a part of you. — Hugh Howey

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for. — April Winchell

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable. — Deepak Chopra

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it. — James Risen

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable. — Errol Morris

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. — John Rawls

Just remember that money cannot buy you happiness (although it might make misery more tolerable). — Jim Baggott

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable. — Bergen Evans

Manners can make a very uncomfortable situation more tolerable. — Grace Lozada

Power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms. — Michel Foucault

Stupidity alone can sometimes be tolerable, but when you add arrogance to the mix, you then become a stupid bitch. — D.S. Mixell

As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable! — Upton Sinclair

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by. — Sebastian Junger

To treat the inhumane world with ridicule is to make it tolerable. — Donald Kuspit

A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable. — Tallulah Bankhead

To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable. — Clark Ashton Smith

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. — Paul Dickson

The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections. — Richard A. Epstein

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. — Publilius Syrus

Medication can make a bad situation tolerable and mask the need for change. — Julie Holland

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. — Anais Nin

School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn't so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them. — Susane Colasanti

I felt a rush of trust
felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present. — David James Duncan

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. — Ivan Illich

By confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past — William Hardy McNeill

History is not coherent; moreover, the politics of coherence tend to drive history in the least tolerable directions. — Joshua Clover

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism. — Benjamin Tucker

Sluts and losers are tolerable to my friends. But a person with a social conscience is from Pluto. — Melina Marchetta

It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable. — Donna Tartt

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds — Charlaine Harris

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable. — Pamela Hansford Johnson

Pam said, Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most ... — Charlaine Harris

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. — Nick Hornby

Good-humor makes all things tolerable — Henry Ward Beecher

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights. — Alexander Hamilton

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — Henry David Thoreau

Data itself ... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him. — Dan Simmons

Decency renders all things tolerable. — Joseph Marie, Baron De Gerando

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. — Plato

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose. — Stephen Jones

Fire is the most tolerable third party — Henry David Thoreau

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. — Doris Lessing

Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable. — Caragh M. O'Brien

It is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government. — Margaret Thatcher

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable. — Aleister Crowley

Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable. — Epictetus

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease. — Joseph Addison

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Making life more tolerable — Serj Tankian

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written. — Robert Hass

Ballet, too, was made more tolerable when observed from a barstool. — Tim Sultan

I don't know jack about wine, sorry." "You should learn. It is one of the true and ancient pleasures that make human existence tolerable. — Douglas Preston

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. — Mignon McLaughlin

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play. — Jane Austen

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable. — J.M. Coetzee

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. — Ovid

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. — Jorge Luis Borges

You-your explanations have made you more tolerable. — Claudia Jameson

need to understand how much you're willing to go through to have a shot at being alive and what level of being alive is tolerable to you. — Atul Gawande

I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable. — Allen Shawn

Democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion — Rohinton Mistry

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself. — Thomas Jefferson

Case - a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious. — Timothy Ferriss

It's good for him. No man should get every woman he wants. Keeps their douchebaggery to a tolerable level. — Jamie McGuire

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable. — Gene Simmons

From His eternal perspective, it's tolerable to allow our temporary dreams to fall apart. — Jennie Allen

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. — Johann Sebastian Bach

The best known evil is the most tolerable. — Livy

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable. — Sebastian Faulks

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. — Robert Breault

Death was unpleasant, but it was a familiar and tolerable ache in his chest. — Nora Sakavic

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. — Walter Lippmann

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck. — William Boyd

A tolerable hell is better than an impossible heaven. — Ben Okri

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Most of us no longer have the luxury of asking whether a job is genuinely productive, but only whether it pays well and has tolerable conditions. — Susan Neiman

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter. — Jane Austen

She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt our killer." - Mr Sherlock Darcy — Debbie Cowens

The kind-hearted won't inherit the earth but they make it a tolerable place to live. — Marty Rubin

Maybe if you could put him on mute ... and cut off his hands ... maybe - just maybe - he'd be tolerable then. — Kody Keplinger

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option. — Deborah Feldman

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable. — Mason Cooley

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If — Kay Redfield Jamison

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about. — George Bernard Shaw

Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable. — Henry Wallich