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Quotes About Burden

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
~ Bob Dylan
If you think the summer sun is too hot, just remember, at least you don't have to shovel it.
~ Bob Dylan
The word freedom lost much of its strength when one's back was weighted down with fieldwork.
~ Bob Mayer
something. We all have our crosses to bear. What's more, we wouldn't trade ours for someone else's. If you and ten other people walked into a room and all laid their crosses on the table, everyone would be walking out with the same cross they walked in with.
~ Brad Thor
We all have our crosses to bear. What's more, we wouldn't trade ours for someone else's. If you and ten other people walked into a room and all laid their crosses on the table, everyone would be walking out with the same cross they walked in with.
~ Brad Thor
Al bajar a tierra me di cuenta de que la mochila que llevaba sobre mis espaldas pesaba tanto como el siglo que estaba a punto de terminar, que había llegado el momento de detenerme y de mirar lo que contenía, sacar una a una todas las piedras y darles finalmente un nombre, catalogarlas y después decidir si era el caso de llevarlas conmigo o, en cambio, de abandonarlas.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again. The secondary activity of obedience to the law of God was always intended to serve the primary activity: to love God and enjoy Him forever. When that is primary, the secondary becomes a labor of love, a joyful, and easy burden to bear. (Matthew 11:28-30
~ Swindoll Charles R.
I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn't say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.
~ Sylvia Plath
I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.
~ Sylvia Plath
I crawled between the mattress and the padded bedstead and let the mattress fall across me like a tombstone. It felt dark and safe under there, but the mattress was not heavy enough. It needed about a ton more weight to make me sleep.
~ Sylvia Plath
Her ambition to write stories was the most visible burden of her life.
~ Sylvia Plath
If I had to strain my brain with any more of that stuff I would go mad.
~ Sylvia Plath
A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.
~ Sylvia Plath
Cuanto más incurable se vuelve, más lejos lo esconden a uno.
~ Sylvia Plath
I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so wrong and wearisome that I didn't say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.
~ Sylvia Plath
Then, grubbing over supper, with the badly begun poem like an albatross round the neck of the day, nothing else.
~ Sylvia Plath
the number one most serious problem facing American taxpayers. That problem is the complexity of the tax code.
~ T.R. Reid
Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.
~ T.S. Eliot
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
~ T.S. Eliot.
Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.
~ Tad Williams
I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.
~ Tad Williams
At fifteen, she had assumed all the frightful responsibility of love; at fifteen she had grown old.
~ Tanith Lee
Our love is our burden.
~ Julianna Baggott
But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.
~ Julie Anne Peters