Quotes About Burden

I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear.

Our post-war generation were struggling to escape the past and the burden of guilt we carried and to find a new way.

Apparently, blaming oneself for debilitating student debt is common.

Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

Certain subjects are best done with stars. Certain subjects like 'Alai Payuthe' are done with non-stars. In such films, stars are a burden.

The burden of higher cost electricity and benefits of renewable energy subsidies fall unevenly on Californians.

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

We make high demands on the people we expect to deliver justice, and we don't always appreciate how much it eats away at them.

There was nothing more unfair in the world than when something, be it tree or man, lived on to uselessness, to the point when it became a burden; that of the multitude of sins let loose upon the world to be prayed away and redeemed, this was the only one that was unbearable. The tree at least would fall, rot, and fertilize the earth. But man? Is he at least good for that? Then why bear old age if it brings nothing but discomfort and suffering?

Why seek some higher truth and service, when all the truth is in the fact that you're worth nothing and won't be worth anything anymore, that everything that you came into the world to do, you've done long ago, and that your only work now is to be a burden to others. Is that so? Is it?

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

The person who goes astray from God's wise guidance burdens himself with sorrows and frustrations. In fact, he ends up being a slave to his own desires.

in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking the action.

Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

By late 2017, consumer debt had topped $3.7 trillion, more than double the total at the end of 2000. That's more than $11,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country.

Some of us just accept debt as a part of adult life and trod on, shackled by consequences we don't fully understand.

He felt oddly that he was being accused of something, but the feeling passed and was replaced with the peculiar honor one feels when trusted with a secret. Strange how honors and burdens are so often confused.

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

We are all of us palimpsests; we carry the past around, it comes surging up whether or not we want it, it is an albatross, and a crutch.