Quotes About Burden

Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse.

August comes on not like a month but like an affliction.

No hi ha res que pesi tant com el buit.

I knew from experience that events tend to gang up on you. It's not one straw that breaks the camel's back - it's the cumulative straws piling up and weighing you down. - Kiki Lowenstein

How can you fly with a stone around your neck? How can you run with a chain on your feet? 'But I love him,' I said. That's the stone. That's the chain, said the hawthorn. And until you can give them back, you will never be free again.

Too much balast slows you down.

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

The human capacity for burden is like a bamboo - far more flexible than youd ever believe at first glance.

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There's only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear.

Its not workload that kills you, its worry that kills you.

Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Science is some kind of cosmic apple juice from the Garden of Eden. Those who drink of it are doomed to carry the burden of original sin.

Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Just when I am disheartened, just when cares oppressed, Just when my way is darkest, just when I am distressed, Then is my Savior near me, He knows my every care; Jesus will never leave me; He helps my burden to bear.

We act of our own free will, and if we find life too much to be borne, then clearly there's no one to blame but ourselves.

About these times, my father says that he wishes he had made better decisions. That the burden of raising us alone led him to favor strict regimens and that he wasn't able to talk about his emotions. In retrospect, there is a lot he wishes he'd done differently.

I wonder if what I have should even be called talent. After all, a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you—that is a hazard, I must confess.

Nations, without exception, disposed of body parts all the time. How could we bear ourselves otherwise if not for the mass graves of our forgetting?

People rarely discuss the things that trouble them most.

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?