Quotes About Burden

What a burden such a choice must be. For the first time, she saw her own childhood as an adult, from far away, with the wisdom this war had given her.

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound. I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground. Whisk the lamps away . . . Night.

Some fears you carried alone.

He looked tired, exhausted even, but it was as if this were the specific thing that had exhausted him, not ordinary everyday matters but one single all-consuming care; it was obviously a fatigue born out of decades of vigilance, exhaustion owing to the knowledge that any moment he might be killed by that immeasurable weight of fat.

Talk to God about whatever may be pressuring you and then commit the entire matter into his hands. Do this so that you will be free from the confusion, conflicts and cares that fill the world today.

And every heavy burden you are called upon to lift hides within itself a miraculous secret of strength.

Why would you want the cure?-Elijah I want to live and die like a normal person. Not the way you and Nik want me to.-Rebecca I still don't understand. Why must you always think of our family as a burdon? Now and forever. Those words mean are as important to me now as they ever were.-Elijah You will always be my brother and I will always love you.-Rebecca

The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

Her lips were still moving, whispering the same words over and over. "They were all I could carry. They were all I could carry.

For fifteen years, the people of Weep had lived with the certainty that the monsters were dead, and Eril-Fane had lived with the burden of it.

Her despair may have gone, but it had left its heaviness draped over her, thick and bleak.

Thyon, earthbound, felt every choice he'd made, every action he'd taken as a weight he carried with him. He wondered: Was it weight he could shed or throw off, or what it forever part of him, as much as his bones or his hearts?

There was no drawer she could put them in to give herself a rest, no hook she could tie their tethers to, to keep them in the world.

It was the understanding—and burden—that unlike those many dead because of him, he had life, and life wasn't a default state—I am not dead, hence I must be alive—but a medium. For action, for effort. As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough.

Viata lunga este o povara, cand este traita in nefericire.

Her train came, and she wrestled her burden through the doors, trying not to think too much about what was in it, or the magnificent life that had been ended somewhere in Africa, though probably not recently. These tusks were massive, and Karou happened to know that elephant tusks rarely grew so big anymore—poachers had seen to that. By killing all the biggest bulls, they'd altered the elephant gene pool.

She'd poured so much of herself into keeping it buried, sometimes it felt like any energy she might have had for joy or love or light went there instead. You only had so much to give. So…

Aku bahkan tak percaya konsep pahlawan resmi, sebab pahlawan hadir dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, pada mereka yang berkorban dan yang bertahan memikul beban.

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

You can keep it a secret.... But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.

Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?