Quotes About Burden

Caleb knew he was running away. Shirking his responsibilities, worrying his father sick, more than likely, and letting a lot of people down. He knew that. And he knew it couldn't go on.

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Mul?i dintre noi se las? încovoia?i sub ap?sarea ?tiin?ei ce au dobândit ?i abia se mai mi?c?, strivi?i ca animalele de corvoad? sub înc?rc?tura din spinare.

Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware of all life's artifices. Getting dressed, wearing make-up, laughing, having fun-isn't all that just playing a role? Am I not more profound, carrying the burden of those twenty years when I 'wasn't alive', than all those who rushed around in vain during that time?

Christ died to free us from the burden of our sin, but he never, so far as [Sister Philomena:] could see, lifted a finger to free us from our stupidity

Pour ma part, même s'il m'était difficile de l'admettre, je menais la vie de ceux qui choisissent obstinément de mourir, mais qui espèrent que le monde se chargera de la besogne.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

And in the same way, again, are not the thoughts of men and women in the agony of death often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, internal, intestinal aspect, towards that 'seamy side' of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, a side which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?

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Having a brain spinning like that, having a brain bottoming out like that, carrying around that psychic baggage all the time—it wears you out.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you.

It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility. Self-compassion is a wonderful gift to give yourself. You should never reduce the mystery and expanse of your presence to a haunted fixation with something you did or did not do.

Duty is heavier than mountains, death is lighter than a feather.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

Nearly everybody has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.

Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent.

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

I ain't sleepin'. I got too much to puzzle with.

It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin.

The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. What a great burden of guilt men have!' Samuel said to Adam, 'And you have tried to take it all.' Lee said, 'So do I, so does everyone. We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.