Quotes About Burden

This is why Jung observed that the greatest burden the child must bear is the unlived life of the parent.

but I am further persuaded that sex (and its accompanying fantasy of romantic love) is now carrying the burden of much of our lost spirituality.

He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him.

Help! he sighed. I feel a strong weakness.

Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.

It's a great burden, being one of the good guys.

Your knowledge and mine won't go away. But you've got to look at it for what it is. You can't bury something awful inside yourself, then pretend it's not there while you fight another war that makes you break all your own rules.

It's all right to put the weight of the world on your shoulders sometimes, if you know how to take it off.

An active imagination is a wonderful thing. But it can also be a burden, if you focus too much on the dark side of the street.

It's hard to explain to people the incredible emotional burden officers carry after enduring these types of incidents, especially when children are involved.

Look at PTSD as weight," she says. "If you're carrying, say, five pounds, you can fix that. If you're carrying five hundred pounds, you'll die.

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

Unfortunately, I've got airplanes that I can't even afford to use today that are sitting there. I'm still paying insurance on them; I'm still paying payments.

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.

Unhappiness isn't just the result of genetics or past trauma or career trouble. I think that some of our unhappiness is simply due to the burden of all our things.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.

I think stardom means a big responsibility that one has to shoulder.

I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.