Quotes About Burden

Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being -- not a constant state -- that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.

heavy saddlebags and walked to the nearest

The truth gets uglier the longer you try to hold it down.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. —Lord Thomas R. Duwar

We've got ourselves a lot of bereavement overload

won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

where love and desire are concerned, there are no adequate examples; and all of our objects must bear the burden of exemplifying and failing what drives our attachment to them.

As the child grows older, obtaining love from the parents becomes linked to pleasing them, so that love is associated with duty, burden, and bondage. For many with this survival style, obtaining love becomes inextricably tied with the necessity to please, often at the expense of their own integrity and autonomy.

You'll always be sad about this," Mia said softly. "But it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you.

And Lydia herself—the reluctant center of their universe—every day, she held the world together. She absorbed her parents' dreams, quieting the reluctance that bubbled up within.

You'll always be sad about this, but it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

To let her be alone with her grief, or whatever heavier thing she'd put on top to hold it down.

that attention came with expectations that—like snow—drifted and settled and crushed you with their weight.

Ever since that summer, he had felt something still binding their ankles and tugging him off balance, fettering her weight to his. For ten years, that something had not loosened, and now it had begun to chafe. All those years, as the only other person who understood their parents, he had absorbed her miseries, offering silent sympathy or a squeeze on a shoulder or a wry smile. [...] He had buoyed her up with how too much love was better than too little.

how hard it would be to inherit their parents' dreams. How suffocating to be so loved.

You'll always be sad about this. But it doesn't mean that you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

settled on her shoulders like a heavy bag, and she wanted badly to blurt it out to her husband, to share some of its weight, but she pushed it away.

The weight of everything he's read settles on him, crushing him to his chair. It is too heavy. He cannot even lift his head.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head.

We forge the chains we wear in life.