Quotes About Burden

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Life only wants us to be happy. We impose these burdens on ourselves.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home.

The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?

i'm only an independent woman when there's nothing heavy to carry

The burden is on the sane.

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.

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.