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Quotes About Burden

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
~ Leymah Gbowee
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
~ King Edward VIII
The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.
~ Anders Fogh Rasmussen
I'm a big fan of Barack Obama. I think he carries a heavier burden and is held to a greater and higher standard than other candidates : I think there's a large, large portion of this country that feels disenfranchised and marginalized by the political process.
~ Chris Carter
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
~ E. O. Wilson
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
~ Thomas a Kempis
A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.
~ Kid Rock
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
~ Anton Chekhov
[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.
~ Stephen L. Richards
You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.
~ Huey Long
Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.
~ Charlie Waite
Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?
~ Erich Fromm
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
~ Euripides
Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down
~ Elvis Costello
The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.
~ Clint Eastwood
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
~ Eric Hoffer
Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
~ Euripides
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
~ George MacDonald
Just these two words He spoke changed my life, "Enjoy Me" What a burden I thought I was to carry-a crucifix as did He. Love once said to me: "I know a song, would you like to hear it?" And laughter came from every brick in the street and from every pore in the sky. After a night of prayer, He changed my life when He sang "Enjoy me".
~ Teresa of Avila
Adam returned his gaze to the cross. The Jesus was hurting. Guilt simmered and then boiled in him. Jesus had a whole world of suffering and horror to worry about and here Adam was in all his punk puniness. He didn't want to add to Jesus's burdens, but... 'Sorry about that. Look, I know you're busy and I don't want to get greedy with your time, but still, if you could just help me... If you could find a minute, please, please, please, dear sweet Jesus, fix me.
~ Teresa Toten
I feel my body, my mind, weighted down — all is heavy — but my blood, my inner fire, my passion, the little unburdened kid in me, patiently waits to burst free. Some of us die never having burst.
~ Terri Guillemets
He who seeks wealth sacrifices his own pleasure, and, like him who carries burdens for others, bears the load of anxiety.
~ The Hitopadesa