Quotes About Burden

You can't have artistic freedom if you have to think about seven different aspects of your own job all the time. It must be very, very exhausting.

I feel like people expect a lot from me.

The expectation from other people kind of gets on me.

Expectations are an evil thing.

Sometimes the weight of expectations, of doing anything, can be a little bit heavy.

A heart's a heavy burden

Me encuentro mal, como si tuviera un gran peso en el pecho. - Un corazón es una pesada carga.

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down... I ghosted between islands of anxiety... a fatigue that dulled my zest, decanted it. Sorrow felt like a marble coat I couldn't shed.

Terminado el entierro, por fin podría llorar. Pero no pude. Mi lágrimas, contenidas durante demasiado tiempo, se habían secado. Tendrían que quedarse dentro para siempre.

Wakings are the worst times - almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on to my heart.

There are people with their hands in their hair, holding in their brains.

There seems to be a conspiracy, one calculated to destroy our sanity by overloading our memory. Many codes, such as postal codes and telephone numbers, exist primarily to make life easier for machines and their designers without any consideration of the burden placed upon people. Fortunately

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility.

Betsy and I are going to try as hard as we can not to put the burden of that longing on each other," I said. "Instead, we will comfort each other in the longing and even love it for what it is, a promise that God will someday fulfill us.

Shhh. Stop trying to carry the whole world on your shoulders. Let someone hold you. Let me.

Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.

Well says Owen, "I do not understand how a man can be a true believer unto whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow, and trouble.

History, lead-footed and relentless, weighed down the text.

Bad enough I'm a goddamn burden to myself.

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on? —Tom Waits "I never want to hear the screams Of the teenage girls in other people's dreams." —The Specials "The soul under the burden of sin cannot flee." —Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

You don't carry it around with you like a sackful of cinders.

The soul under the burden of sin cannot flee." —Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn