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Quotes About Burden

It is strange to think you don't know you are carrying a giant weight, and you didn't know how heavy it was, until it's gone.
~ Karen Harrington
All my sins were trapped between its covers. And the damn thing just wouldn't go away. I'd tried to escape culpability, and my culpability had had the nerve to take on a life of its own and hunt me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I needed a darkness that would have killed the others. And they needed me to keep it a secret from them.
~ Karen Russell
I blinked down at a little blond child and then saw that my two hands were shaking violently, soundlessly, like old friends wishing not to burden me with their troubles.
~ Karen Russell
Who doesn't dream of it? The silence that blots up thought. The silence that frees one from the burden of being oneself.
~ Karen Russell
The past lies like a nightmare upon the present
~ Karl Marx
how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?
~ Katherine Hannigan
There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
~ G. R. Elton
As for his friends, he no longer had any. One after another they had all dropped away, as though friendship had become a burden which he had at first made every effort to shoulder and then had gradually realised that there was no need for and let go, and it had gone.
~ Gabriel Josipovici
The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time. How light.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I felt guilty, but lighter. I had turned my problem into someone else's.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
There was no relaxing when you lived a secret.
~ Gail Giles
It was like a bad dream with only one saving grace: my family thought I was dead. I suddenly felt lighter, relieved of the burden that had been placed on me as a living person. Yet, there was still someone who knew I existed, which made me feel like a real person again, not a ghost roaming the earth.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
We have smothered ourselves, buried ourselves, in the vast heap of information which all of us have and none of us has.
~ Gamaliel Bradford
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.
~ Garth Stein
To live everyday as if it has been stolen by death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am a person, that is how I will live my life.
~ Garth Stein
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say that I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am a person, that is how I will live my life.
~ Garth Stein
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am a person, that is how I will live my life.
~ Garth Stein
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am person, that is how I will live my life.
~ Garth Stein
From the earliest age, children sense your attitude. If you approach their care as a burden or drudgery, your children will respond in a burdensome way, and you will experience drudgery. Instead, see each day as an adventure and know that each stage of your children's development is precious.
~ Gary Ezzo
This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore
~ Brian Andreas
This is a pretty deep hole for putting away all the ugly things in the world. For a long time it was empty, but it started filling up really fast the last couple of years.
~ Brian Andreas
El dolor era una carga demasiado pesada para arrastrarla en un viaje a través de las estrellas.
~ Brian Daley