Quotes About Burden

The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

The individual is still obliged to confer the legitimacy of mutually antagonistic values, for even though the array of ultimate values may contract with the rationalization of the world, one is never relieved from the existential burden of choice ('taking a stand').

Because how much weight would be removed from his shoulders if he just stopped expecting their praise?

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

Love, not hate, is the burden we carry. But that fact makes it no lighter.

She looked like a tear-streaked maid sleepless under the weight on unbearable knowledge. She smiled.

Mensch ohne Vorurteile bedeutet gewöhnlich Mensch ohne Geistigkeit. Vorurteile, Aberglauben, Skrupel sind Keime des Geistes, der in einfachen Seelen sprießt. Mit ihnen aufzuräumen, um von den Seelen die Last zu nhmen, die "den freien Ausdruck des Geistes erstickt", begünstigt lediglich die Erosion dieser armen Boden.

You can run away from all life responsibilities but can't hide from mistakes.

The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

I knew that if the subject were to arise, I would once again speak words that would cut my friend, little ceremonial slashes to his soul, not to cause a mortal wound, just to draw blood and to relieve myself of a nameless burden.

Ba?ar?s?zl?klar?n? bozuk düzenin s?rt?na yüklemen belki seni ferahlat?r, fakat kurtarmaz. Bunu çok iyi bileceksin.

Adam olmad??? için insanl??a vekâlet ediyordum. Esas adamlar gelseydi de ben de biraz rahat nefes alsayd?m.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.

The city hung on him, weighed him down with stone on all sides; it clung to him with the tar of dozens of eyes he could see, and hundreds more he couldn't. Lord, how much easier things were in the forest.

I could feel the huge, unbearable burden of my own body.

The woman about to become a mother, or with her newborn infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden or stretches her aching limbs.... God forbid that any member of the profession to which she trusts her life, doubly precious at that eventful period, should hazard it negligently, unadvisedly or selfishly.

Un secret est d'autant plus lourd à porter qu'il engage votre amour.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

It's not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as arent afraid of truth.

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

I drag my myth around with me