Quotes About Burden

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

Sometimes when you're hurting, it helps to throw yourself at something that will take your weight.

The Lord sends to each of us some chastisement. Some burden, so that we may turn to him.

I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

Alexander was suffocating under the weight of his love.

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.

For one's past grows to a point where it is longer than one's future, and then it can become too great a burden.

Piangendo [...] ci si pulisce meglio che tuffandosi nel lago più puro. Si posa il fardello sul marciapiede del binario d'arrivo.

Children were vulnerable—helpless hostages to fate, their emotions so tender that a parent could with the smallest sentence, the briefest gesture, accidentally scar them. He did not want the burden of carrying that responsibility.

She didn't tell him about the cancer. She didn't want to tell anyone about it. It seemed to make everything worse.

The presence of God is not a burden to bear!

Guilt was dread without the tightness in the chest part, just the weight in the gut.

It is a shame that we so quickly lose that ability to believe in things; it limits the opportunities we have to transform ourselves, to save ourselves, for it puts the awful burden of transforming and saving ourselves on ourselves. Once you stop believing, you cannot pray, or make sacrifices or pilgrimages, or light candles. You are stuck with yourself, in a world without miracles.

Roman citizenship became universal when it was no longer a privilege but a burden

But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”

“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.

But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ëLet us go and sacrifice to our God.í

Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”

So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ëI am no longer giving you straw.

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.í”