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Quotes About Burden

It does seem a heavy burden that in every new life a soul must search all over again to find its true self in a different body.
~ Michael Newton
This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison—thinking you can cure them by sharing it—you will instead store it within you.
~ Michael Ondaatje
A person will walk through a hundred doors to carry out the whims of the dead, not realizing he is burying himself away from the others.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.
~ Michael Ondaatje
As pro-life advocates continue to expose the scientific and ethical reality of abortion, we must also console the millions of Americans who carry the heavy burden of an enormous sin.
~ Michael J. Knowles
I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that whole thing of 'I'm always burdened with this' and the original sin idea. It's not like that for me.
~ Frankie Boyle
There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energy away from me. It was always in the back of my mind that I had to do it, and I couldn't count on anybody. There was no one around to pay for me to get through life.
~ Joanna Cassidy
I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.
~ Christine Keeler
It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.
~ Dave Obey
A pressure situation is not a happy feeling.
~ Abhinav Bindra
In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
~ Patrick Chan
You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.
~ Mark McGwire
There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!
~ John Hawkes
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
LOVE is like a burden ROSE, but a burden LOVE is never been a beautiful ROSE.
~ Seiji Kaneko
Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Our love is our burden.
~ Julianna Baggott
She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.
~ Jodi Picoult
To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?
~ Kami Garcia
In the sympathetic words of the New York Times: "All admit to being deeply frustrated at times by the lack of privacy, the physical burden, the routine of family life, the confinement of it. However, none would give up her home and family if she had the choice to make again.
~ Betty Friedan
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
~ Bill Watterson
Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain.
~ Bill Willingham