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Quotes About Burden

Capital erosion was another way to waste his substance, to become as thin and hollow as he felt, to lighten the burden of undeserved good fortune, and commit a symbolic suicide while he still dithered about the real one. He also nursed the opposite fantasy that when he became penniless he would discover some incandescent purpose born of his need to make money.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Even if medication relieves some of the burden of depression, it may be functioning like aspirin. That is, it takes away some of the symptoms but the root problems persist.
~ Edward T. Welch
Obedience to Christ is not a burden to bear. Instead it points the way to being truly human—an unfettered conscience, an unhindered nearness to him, and the pleasure of his hospitality and protection.
~ Edward T. Welch
We are connected to things that have been forced on us, such as the sins of others
~ Edward T. Welch
We're all carrying our coffins with us every day." Or "We are all constantly cheating death.
~ Edwidge Danticat
You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head.
~ Edwidge Danticat
The person who teaches one chapter of guidance to the people will have a reward similar to all those who would act upon it, and nothing would be lessened or subtracted from the reward of those who practise it; and the one who teaches a chapter of misguidance, he will have the burden (wrath) similar to each one who acts upon it, and nothing will be lessened from their burden of sin (wrath of Allah).
~ al-Baqir, Muhammad
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
~ Albert Einstein
A young population, then, can have contradictory implications for production, since such bulges in population can be an economic burden during the period that its members are infants and young children, but the bulge then contributes to a boom when those children grow into their productive years – and then again it becomes a burden when they grow old, especially if the
~ Albert S. Lindemann
Waste is a tax on the whole people.
~ Albert W. Atwood
I don't always feel what I know I should feel. My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Me carga que la gente espere cosas de mí. Me enreda, me complica, me obliga a responder.
~ Alberto Fuguet
No sabes lo que cansa nunca dejar de pensar en uno.
~ Alberto Fuguet
Writing is nothing if not carrying the hopeless, backbreaking burden of decisions devoid of consequences.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Escribir no vale de nada si no acarrea la agotadora e irresoluble carga de las decisiones sin consecuencia alguna.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
I was now both the secret and the keeper of it, but the idea that I could not know what is was I served, nor why, nor who, became nearly unendurable all at once
~ Alexander Chee
I was now both the secret and the keeper of it, but the idea that I could not know what it was I served, nor why, nor who, became nearly unendurable all at once
~ Alexander Chee
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
~ Alfred A. Montapert
Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.
~ Lou Barletta
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
We cannot pretend that Messi will solve all the problems. He cannot carry everything on his shoulders.
~ Mario Kempes
I can't imagine Christ being weak and carrying on about his burdens to women, let alone an Oprah type of woman. We respect and believe in Christ because of the way he dealt with life and how he overcame evil with good. His strength and love encourages those sincerely seeking to believe in God.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
I am of the opinion that the burden of playing games is much too high, especially for international players that also play domestically with their clubs.
~ Toni Kroos