Quotes About Burden

The yoke of my birth

To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

A man burdened with a secret should especially avoid the intimacy of his physician.

But this very burden it was, that gave him sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind; so that his heart vibrated in unison with theirs, and received their pain into itself, and sent its own throb of pain through a thousand other hearts, in gushes of sad, persuasive eloquence. Oftenest persuasive, but sometimes terrible! The people knew not the power that

Let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.

The days of the far off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up and bear along with her but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame

O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom! By

More than once, he had cleared his throat, and drawn in the long, deep, and tremulous breath, which, when sent forth again, would come burdened with the black secret of his soul.

You are my evil spirit, you and the hard, coarse world! The leaden thoughts and the despondency that you fling upon me are my clogs, else I should long ago have achieved the task that I was created for.

You see, natural beauty creates such excitement that the existence of the weight is negated. And once it is negated, the heavier it is to bear.

To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.

One could say, Ayn, that he has cast himself as Atlas. Which means the slightest shrug can shake the world.

Guilt is easy, innocence is hard.

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.

It's when you hide things that you choke on them.

I know it's impossible to explain this to you. I carry this terrible aching hell in my heart.

Love… Is like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

except for llamas in the Andes, the Western Hemisphere had no beasts of burden.

My burden is borne by the others; their strength is my strength; when I falter and fail, the faith of the church comes to my aid." —SANCTORUM COMMUNIO

Aprendamos esta lección de Nehemías: usted nunca alivia la carga, a menos que antes haya sentido la presión en su propia alma. Usted no será nunca usado por Dios para llevar bendición, hasta que Dios le haya abierto los ojos y le haya hecho ver las cosas como son.4

Only debt is forever.