Quotes About Burden

I didn't blame my mother for needing an escape. I felt guilty for my existence and the burden we were on her.

I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

You think you have all the pain you can bear, but yours will be lessened as you bear mine, and mine will be lessened as I bear yours!

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching" than to say My heart is broken.

To be "unhistorical" is the Promethean sin, and in this sense the modern man is sinful. A higher level of consciousness is like a burden of guilt!

The neurotic who seeks to get rid of the necessities of life wins nothing and lays upon himself the frightful burden of a premature age and death, which must appear especially cruel on account of the total emptiness and meaninglessness of his life.

The development of consciousness is the burden, the suffering, and the blessing of mankind.

I only know there is no point in wishing to know more of the collective unconscious than one gets through dreams and intuition. The more you know of it, the greater and heavier becomes your moral burden, because the unconscious contents transform themselves into your individual tasks and duties as soon as they begin to become conscious. Do you want to find more and more complications and increasing responsibilities?

The heaviest burden any child bears is the unlived life of the parent.

She wished she could just set down the secret and leave it somewhere. But secrets were like land mines. You had to make sure no one stepped on them. Or the whole family might blow up.

add to all the others he had levied for the war.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?

Worries, he'd learned, are like rabbits: they compound in the dark.

There is no grater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.

After that night, I really saw the heavy trip his family laid on him. To them, he was the Second Coming, the man of the house at age fourteen. Maybe that's why River always took himself so seriously," Hawke said.

I can't expand to my highest potential because I'd be an even bigger burden than I am now.

Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush

Time has a weight to it, and right now I can feel it heavy over me.

Just as, she now understands, Nathaniel's loss has somehow merged with her own. It sounds like a burden, to take this on, but really, it's the opposite. To be the holder of other people's loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love.

TIME HAS A WEIGHT TO IT AND RIGHT NOW I FEEL IT HEAVY ON ME.

Adam has about a foot and fifty pounds on Kim, but after stumbling for a second, she adjusts to the added burden. She bears it.

I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.