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Quotes About Burden

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
~ Toni Morrison
Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.
~ Bible
Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
~ William Faulkner
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
~ John Updike
Debt is a bottomless sea.
~ Thomas Carlyle
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.
~ John F. Kennedy
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
~ Talmud
The camel, at the close of day, Kneels down upon the sandy plain To have his burden lifted off And rest again. My soul, thou too should to thy knees When daylight draweth to a close, And let thy Master lift the load And grant repose.
~ Anonymous
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
~ Thomas C. Haliburton
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
~ Voltaire
Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.
~ Comtesse Diane
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water.
~ Antoine de Rivarol
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
~ Vicki Baum
Silence is not certain token That no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken Is the heaviest load to bear.
~ Frances Ridley Havergal
The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.
~ Peter Schiff
We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.
~ Kimora Lee Simmons
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
I was not only a billionaire but the richest man in Turkey. It's a great feeling, but your responsibilities increase.
~ Husnu Ozyegin
Career politicians in D.C. have shirked their responsibility to us for decades. At every turn, they've kicked the can down the road, pushing the burdens of our problems and our debts onto our children and grandchildren.
~ Mike Braun
When you are in your twenties if somebody hands you the keys to the kingdom and there's all this expectation and burden on you - what does that do to you and also how do you react to being given those keys?
~ Sarah Jeffery
I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.
~ Tyler Perry
The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.
~ Jessamyn West
It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.
~ Martin Amis