Quotes About Burden

Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow.

Harsh fate, but its burden becomes lighter to bear, since everything that attempts to turn back is impossible. (I, 24)

If more gently than Orpheus who moved even the trees you were to pluck the zither the life-blood would not return to the vain shadow . . . Harsh fate, but its burden becomes lighter to bear, since everything that attempts to turn back is impossible. (I, 24) WHERE DOES THE ETERNAL CURRENT COME FROM?

Debt is a bottomless sea.

They were ants saying, "Hey can we help you hold up this huge building that's toppling onto you?

A person could explode if he had to think too much.

It can't be fun when your claim to fame, your special talent, is in jeopardy. Here's Adam Guettel: "I wish I could just have fun and relax and not have the responsibility of that potential to be some kind of great man . As with the kids in our study, the burden of talent was killing his enjoyment.

RULE #13: Don't bear the weight alone when you can dump some on a friend.

The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.

The load was too heavy for her, but giving it to God and allowing Him to carry it for her seemed impossible. That would mean yielding her heart and accepting God's will. And she didn't know if she had the courage to do that.

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.

To understand why sludge matters, let's begin with the assumption that people are fully rational and that in deciding whether to wade through sludge, they make some calculation about costs and benefits. Even if the benefits of that wading are high, the costs might prove overwhelming.

heaped on the hapless American student to pay for a bloated academic establishment

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

You will have little joy of your command, but I think you have the strength in you to do the things that must be done.

At the least, they will say … this last thing … this I did right. You won't fail me. You'll rule now. You'll hate it, worse than I did … but you'll do well.

Vannak titkok, amelyeket sohasem szabad kimondani, szégyenteljes dolgok, amelyeket jobb, ha az ember magával visz a sírba.

I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no greater burden than to be the owner of this nasty country where it rains every day.