Quotes About Burden

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.

There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.

My heart is properly cultivated ... and is not left to wither under the burden of cold erudition, and my religious feelings are not deadened by theological inquiries.

I've been thinking of combustication as a welcome vacation from the burdens of planet Earth - like gravity, hypocrisy, the perils of being in 3-D, and thinking so much differently.

Satisfying needs is the burden of the poor. The wealthy and the powerful can afford to indulge their wants and whims.

But it was an awful lot of responsibility to give to somebody who liked sticking French fries in his nostrils.

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

You make it sound like having the power to change the world is a bad thing." "Bad? No. Abhorrent, depressing, ghastly. Having power is a terrible burden, the worst thing imaginable, except for every other alternative.

They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm going mad. Perhaps it is due to the pressure of knowing that I must somehow bear the burden of an entire world. Perhaps it is caused by the death I have seen, the friends I have lost. The friends I have been forced to kill.

If men read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Worry has weight, and is an infinitely renewable resource.

Emotion. It is what defines men—though ironically you are poor vessels for it. It fills you up and breaks you, unless you find someone to share the burden.

Our laws will claim innocent men—for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.

But after spending ages walking around with everyone piling bricks in your arms, it can throw you off balance when someone removes a brick to carry for you.

Worry has weight, and is an infinitely renewable resource. One might say worries are the only things you can make heavier simply by thinking about them.

Worry has a weight, and is an infinitely renewable resource. One might say worries are the only things you can make heavier simply by thinking about them.

I see with sympathy The swollen veins on his brow, showing How exhausting it is to be evil.

I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.

Secret, smug believers! God never gives you more than you can bear, they like to say, as if the strong should be punished for their strength: We can bear it. So we got it. But what about my baby? How weak does a newborn have to be to escape God's burdens?

The more guilt and shame that we have buried within ourselves, the more compelled we feel to seek relief through sin.