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Quotes About Burden

grief is the hardest cross to bear.
~ Glenn Meade
Things unused burden and beset.
~ Goethe
What use am I?...How can I help feeling stings of conscience when I know that I am a useless burden on the earth?
~ Gogol Nikolai
Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.
~ Goran Persson
Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
As Maynard Keynes famously observed: "If I owe you a pound, I have a problem, but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.
~ Gordon Chang
Breathe open fields of calm and content. Don't clang your lungs against your burdens. A constricted life needn't constrict your breath.
~ Terri Guillemets
Debt is the worst poverty.
~ Proverb
Guilt sticks like glue.
~ Terri Guillemets
A crown is no cure for the headache.
~ German proverb
Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to God for a faith lift.
~ Author Unknown
Grief is a burden but also a friend— It is not grief that wounds your heart but it is grief that heals your heart.
~ Terri Guillemets
As some one has said, they do everything for the poor except get off their backs
~ Jack London
Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
~ Jacqueline Carey
We must share our knowledge, share our strengths and weakness, share the burden of danger and the rewards of victory.
~ Jacqueline Carey
You should embrace your freedom, my lady. Lay down your long burden. You belong to the world of the living. Return to it.
~ Jacqueline Carey
I believe it is to our detriment that age gives us a certain mistrust of those younger than ourselves, and we fail to see the strength within them to assume the burden of truth.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Fear, she thought, had a viscous quality to it, to the extent that you could even feel it in your feet as you were running to the shelter; a burden slowing you down, despite the fact that you were moving as fast as your legs could carry you.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
May I know what it is to feel the weight on another's shoulders.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Where is the burden which should cause unhappiness or sorrow? It does not exist. If a thing is to be done let it be done cheerfully, and not with inward groanings and lamentations. It is of the highest wisdom to embrace necessity as a friend and guide.
~ James Allen
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
~ James Baldwin
It was better not to judge the man who had gone down under an impossible burden. It was better to remember: Thou knowest this man's fall, but thou knowest not his wrassling.
~ James Baldwin
Nothing is more unbearable, once has it, than freedom.
~ James Baldwin
At length, she lay beside him like a burden laid down at evening which must be picked up once more in the morning.
~ James Baldwin