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Quotes About Burden

My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.
~ Penelope Douglas, Punk 57
i took it off.i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
~ AVA., you are safe here.
It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I did not think so at first, but I know better now.
~ Bram Stoker
Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
~ Bram Stoker
What was one more skeleton in an already crowded closet?
~ Brenda Novak
I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Even victories take their toll on a man.
~ Brian Herbert
Even innocents carry within them their own guilt in their own way. No one survives through life without paying in one fashion or another.
~ Brian Herbert
People´s biggest problem, I realized, is that they project their own sorrow onto other people. Try to share them. They imagine that, because we share the same of sort of DNA, we will automatically feel sad about the same situations. Sorrow doesn't get easier to deal with simply because you share it. Quite the contrary, it gets heavier.
~ Camilla Lackberg
It's dangerous because my thoughts get away from themselves. Mixed with emotion, they pile up like the garbage that surrounds me. They stack layer upon layer, deeper and deeper, month after month- crushing, festering, smoldering. One day something is certain to combust.
~ Camron Wright
Faith is clearly not enough for many people. They crave hard evidence, scientific proof. They long for the scientific seal of approval, but are unwilling to put up with the rigorous standards of evidence that impart credibility to that seal. What a relief it would be: doubt reliably abolished! Then the irksome burden of looking after ourselves would be lifted. We're worried - and for good reason - about what it means for the human future if we have only ourselves to rely upon.
~ Carl Sagan
Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.
~ Terry Goodkind
Nothing gained without cost is valued. I was reminded of that fact only today. She was the one we buried. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it, so that all will value and preserve it.
~ Terry Goodkind
A GRUDGE IS A HEAVY THING TO CARRY.
~ Terry McMillan
You carried your visions as a burden, but it was a gift. You still think of it as such. You think He above would reward you after what you have done? You have ruined lives with your obsession. It became your curse. When have you known a gift to be given twice? Once the package is open, is it still a gift?
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
We are weighed upon by too many things. It is as if the wisdom of the infinite were struggling to beat itself into finite and cup-big minds.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Her sister carried with her most of the grimness of shift and toil.
~ Theodore Dreiser
they shipbuilders or professors of Baltic languages. And some of the staff, like some builders and teachers everywhere, were burdened by too many hours, too little help, too few facilities, and too much tradition, yet found their greatest burden the constant, grinding, overriding necessity for quality.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
~ Karen Duffy
We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.
~ Bryan Stevenson
I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
~ Samuel Smiles
I knew that his confession would be a tremendous relief to him but a burden to me. Such information, once shared, can never be retracted.
~ Karen Essex