Bear Quotes
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Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.
Euripides
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Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
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Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.
J. P. Morgan
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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.
Louise Erdrich
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To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
Wilfred Bion
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Abraham Lincoln
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Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.
Henry Ward Beecher
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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.
Marge Piercy
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.
Chuck Klosterman
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Trash can!” Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I’d eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn’t actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.
Karen Chance
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Henry Ward Beecher
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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
Adam Phillips
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The Exorcist has been a very interesting cross to bear.
Linda Blair
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Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
Phaedrus
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My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
Ethel Merman
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The call to bear God’s image is an invitation to get to know God deeply.
Carolyn Custis James
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Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.
Alexander the Great