Quotes About Burden

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.

It must be sheer hell for you to be cursed with such a pretty boy's face, he drawled. The agony of finding a different woman in your bed every night must wear you thin. I don't know where you get your stamina with this terrible burden you bear. The muscle in Ramsey's jaw flexed, which pleased Brodick considerably. We know you've had as many women in your bed as I have, Ramsey snapped. But I meant what I said. There are more important matters to discuss.

Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.

I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.

The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you're nice, too, which is silly in the extreme. Sadly, it's a burden that you must bear.

Such power, and carried with such careless grace. How that must burden him.

Roland sat beside his little sister. You are too young to know this, but love cannot grow in rocky soil. It must be planted in a tender heart, cared for with the gentlest of touches, warmed with happiness. and protected from all that might wish to harm it. That sounds like a lot of work, Melisandre said. It is a lot of work. But if it's true love, then it will be the lightest burden you'll ever carry.

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.

No man is without his load of trouble.

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.