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Quotes About Burden

It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an emotion that leads anywhere.
~ Lionel Shriver
Time hangs off me like molting skin.
~ Lionel Shriver
De qué me gustaría huir? De la complejidad. De la angustia. De esa sensación que he tenido toda la vida de que en cualquier momento hay algo que olvido, un detalle, una obligación, algo que se supone que tendría que estar haciendo o que ya debería haber hecho. Es una sensación que no me deja en paz, me levanto con ella por la mañana y no se me va en todo el día. Me voy a dormir con esa sensación.
~ Lionel Shriver
The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.
~ Lisa Kleypas
It was a high-class problem burden, but it was still a burden on 'The Vampire Diaries,' in which we had this group of characters that we loved writing for so much and who had so much available story to tell.
~ Julie Plec
Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.
~ Marcus Buckingham
I think the vast majority of us in this country hunger for more unity and hospitality, and we all share and shoulder the burden of hard work to build that.
~ Lee Isaac Chung
The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.
~ Shah Rukh Khan
It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders the day I finally finished both verses for 'My Shot.'
~ Black Thought
It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.Oh, Dexter, a savage inhuman monster has taken my boyfriend! Well damn it, I'm a savage inhuman monster, too—didn't that entitle me to some rest?
~ Jeff Lindsay
I felt like a ventriloquist's dummy, suddenly called upon to perform the whole act alone.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The end result of all this consumption is a society running furiously to stay in place. The overwork by each member of society puts a burden (a negative externality) on others, who must also run hard to keep up. Consumers also run because others are running, with everybody finding themselves in a race they'd rather do without. The
~ Jeffrey D. Sachs
The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
A few years ago, I read an article saying that the mortality rate for comedians is higher than those serving in the military. How heartbreaking is that? When we think of comedy, we think funny, light, and uplifting, never considering those for whom the burden was too much, like Robin Williams, Richard Jeni, Drake Sather, or Charles Rocket.
~ Jen Lancaster
When there is a marriage. A union that you were born of, not responsible for. You, child, should be a gift to those who are ready, not a burden like so many others before you. Come back, child, when I am no longer a child myself. Laura
~ Jennifer Lynch
Through God's grace, he gives us a wealth of resources to bear any burden he allows. Therefore, if God doesn't empty our cup of suffering or take it from us, he will give ample grace (favor, kindness, ability) to bear it.
~ Jennifer Rothschild
I didn't feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.
~ Jennifer Weiner
That's Harris all over—so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
So ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
È questo il problema! Non ci arrivi? Lui ha già fatto tutto!» È sempre più agitato. «Cazzo, Christopher Shepherd ha protetto tutti noi e a me non ha lasciato niente da fare! Si è sottoposto alle torture peggiori che ci infliggeva mio padre e non mi ha mai permesso di ripagarlo.»
~ Jessica Park
For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy - a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling of sorts...Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
~ Jon Porter
Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
~ Tammy Bruce