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Quotes About Burden

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful and all things are possible.
~ Thomas a Kempis
If thou willingly bear the Cross, it will bear thee, and will bring thee to the end which thou seekest, even where there shall be the end of suffering; though it shall not be here. If thou bear it unwillingly, thou makest a burden for thyself and greatly increaseth thy load, and yet thou must bear it. If thou cast away one cross, without doubt thou shalt find another and perchance a heavier.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible
~ Thomas A. Kempis
Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.
~ Thomas Becket
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The burden of the incommunicable.
~ Thomas de Quincey
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
~ Thomas de Quincey
You know, I can't tell you that I'm very fond of anything I've done, including - and especially- 'The Addams Family.' That's an albatross around my neck that I've got to get rid of somehow.
~ Ted Cassidy
This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family.
~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.
~ Conor McPherson
'Bigg Boss' for me is a journey and when the journey is coming to an end you don't want to continue any negativity, grudges or burden with you.
~ Rubina Dilaik
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
~ Kenneth Tynan
I love getting to be in 'The Avengers.' You just breathe a little bit. It's not all about you. It's so nice to have other people bearing the burden of responsibility.
~ Chris Evans
No country save for India is expected to bear a heavier financial burden from climate change than the United States.
~ Annie Lowrey
I had no desire to be a star and a star's responsibility.
~ Elizabeth Wilson
Sucede siempre que las armas ajenas o se caen de los hombros del príncipe, o le pesan, o le oprimen.
~ Nicolás Maquiavelo
The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.
~ Nicole Krauss
In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.
~ Nikki Sixx
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
~ Nina Simone
The core of the anarchist tradition, as I understand it, is that power is always illegitimate, unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So the burden of proof is always on those who claim that some authoritarian hierarchic relation is legitimate. If they can't prove it, then it should be dismantled.
~ Noam Chomsky
the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.
~ Nora Ephron
Hand me a shovel, he thought. I'm getting tired of digging this hole for myself with my bare hands. -Ben
~ Nora Roberts
A leader's who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren't any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong. A leader's the one who has to do the dirty work, even if it's the damn dishes.
~ Nora Roberts