Quotes About Burden

To look at me now, you would think I'd never understood the secret. This music of old age...it isn't made for dancing. It's so...lonely. You're a burden to everyone.

The good boy hugs a bag of peaches his father has entrusted to him. Now he follows his father, who carries a bagful in each arm. See the look on the boy's face as his father moves faster and farther ahead, while his own steps flag, and his arms grow weak, as he labors under the weight of peaches.

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day, but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull;

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

The truth . . . sets you free." His breathing changes. He struggles to get his next words out. "It's . . . the secrets that fester. You . . . think you've buried them, gotten rid of them somehow, but they're like this damned cancer. The minute you're down, the second you grow tired, it starts to grow again,

They do not have to prove innocence, but we do have to prove guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. What we need is a confession. We need a guilty plea. We need irrefutable proof. Something.

No. Not really. I haven't been okay for a long time, and I don't think I realized the extent of the toll this is taking on me.

My imagination is a burden sometimes.

No one likes pants. They're just one of life's fun burdens.

I'm brilliant as well as skilled, he said modestly. It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

Michael half-smiled. "The Lord will never give you a burden bigger than your shoulders can bear, Harry. All we can do is face what comes and have faith." I gave him a sour glance. "I need to get myself some bigger shoulders, then. Someone in accounting must have made a mistake.

Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations.

There's been a lot on my mind, I replied. It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten, Queen Mab replied. Improve your mind.

And it was all your fault, Harry.

Death is as light as a feather, duty heavier than a spire.

Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. I

I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

For all power there is a price.

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.