“The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.”

“My soul
Shall bear that also; for, by practice taught,
I have learned patience, having much endured.”

“We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.”

“The hour of emancipation is advancing... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to its consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.”

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”

“When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.”

“Although we cannot place all the blame for the dismal condition of LDCs on Keynesian economics, it bears a heavy responsibility for much of the pain and suffering in the Third World.”

“She tended to keep her eyes half closed, as if full sight of the world’s absurdity might be too much to bear.”

“People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape.”

“There’s too much beauty upon this earth
For lonely men to bear.”