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Quotes About Burden

I have no physical symptoms, but psychologically there's this burden. I've got to get rid of it somehow. Of course, when I first went back to work I was scared the same thing might happen again. It takes positive thinking to overcome fear, otherwise you'll carry around this victim mentality forever.
~ Haruki Murakami
A hearts a heavy burden - Sophie Hatter
~ Hayao Miyazaki
I didn't know how he managed to keep the weight of his secret when the burden of it was crushing me.
~ Heather O'Neill
Be a presence carrier rather than a burden bearer.
~ Heidi Baker
I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it's actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the writing process for me. I love everything about L.A. Okay, not the traffic. But I love the way it looks. I love the geography. I love the diversity.
~ Robert Crais
The first song I wrote, when I was 8, was about feeling really angry - like the weight of everything on my shoulders.
~ Adrianne Lenker
Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.
~ Joe Strummer
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
~ Dalai Lama
Raising the cost of public transit would burden residents who can least afford transportation alternatives and punish commuters who are doing the most to ease traffic and improve air quality.
~ Michelle Wu
I don't want to carry the burden of a flop. I don't fall into that trap.
~ Anushka Sharma
Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Alas, it is the dear-bought privilege of the unfortunate to be tedious!
~ Sophia Lee
Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.
~ Spanish proverb
Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden."
~ St. Augustine
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.
~ Stefan Zweig
It's not your fault. But whose fault is it? Why are we always the ones who suffer? We didn't do anything, we didn't do anything to anyone, but every step we take is a trap.
~ Stefan Zweig
Merit? s? iei asupra ta o povar? grea dac? în felul acesta poÅ£i uÅŸura povara unui alt om"(Suflete zbuciumate)
~ Stefan Zweig
Bize hiçbir ÅŸey yapmad?lar -sadece bizi en mutlak anlamdaki hiçliÄŸin içerisine yerleÅŸtirdiler, çünkü bilindiÄŸi gibi dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey insan ruhu üzerinde hiçlik kadar a??r bir bask? uygulayamaz.
~ Stefan Zweig
A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence.
~ Stefan Zweig
It required an enormous amount of energy and time just to do errands like getting groceries. She was always sweaty after she got groceries.
~ Stephanie Clifford
the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226
~ Stephanie Dowrick