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Quotes About Burden

Craving burrito so much that I can't move or breathe
~ Tao Lin
The shower may take care of the old dirt in my hair and on my skin, but there are some things that being in a nice bathroom just won't wash away.
~ Tara Sullivan
Hjarta mitt? Det er mørkt og stygt i hjarta mitt. Ikkje nemn det.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.
~ Tasha Alexander
He no longer believed in ideals and stuff. He wished that he could kick out the beliefs he had held so dear all his life. Why should he bear the burden of these principles when all most people do is only touch their lips to the cup of wisdom but not take it into their hearts and minds? Why should he bother with being the only believer?
~ Taslima Nasrin
Roy, I know that we had a choice, but really, we didn't have a choice. I mourned as though I had miscarried. My body apparently was fertile soil, but my life was not. You may feel that you're carrying a burden, but I shoulder a load as well. So now you know. We are bearing two different crosses.
~ Tayari Jones
I had a weight pressing on my soul and I dolled my way out from under it.
~ Tayari Jones
There is no weight like the burden of a body.
~ Tayari Jones
Lloro mi perdida juventud, mis esperanzas y mis sueños, el espectro de una promesa muerta, los años enguirnaldados en los que yo creí que la vida tenía algún significado. ¿Cómo pueden soportar los otros hombres esta carga?
~ Taylor Caldwell
Should there be a son or a nephew or a cousin in the family who is capable and courageous enough to do all the work, then the other members need not disturb themselves, or save their money, or labor. For it has been shown by the gods that it is their intention that The Strong One must carry the burden." OLD CHINESE SAYING
~ Taylor Caldwell
Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to load.
~ Ted Kooser
estamos tan enfermos como los secretos que guardamos.
~ Ted Roberts
I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.
~ Katie Couric
I've kind of realised life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realised I'm not special.
~ Marian Keyes
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
~ Ambrose Bierce
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
~ Calvin Trillin
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
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.
~ George MacDonald
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
~ John Owen
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
~ Raymond Chandler
An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.
~ J. Golden Kimball
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.