Quotes About Burden

Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he can step onto the page and burden you with his actual existence? Detective stories always have too many characters anyway. And characters mentioned early on but never sighted, just lingering offstage, take on an awful portentous quality. Better to have them gone.

I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.

Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive and thinking is killing me

From where she is, the page- her paper-thin future-is infinitely heavy.

But I knew that there couldn't be pockets that enormous. In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

In the end, everyone looses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.

She let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.

Lilliputians think nothing can be more unjust, than for people, in subservience to their own appetites, to bring children into the world, and leave the burthen of supporting them on the public. As

Los dolores que no pudimos expresar en nuestra infancia los cargamos como una mochila, y se expresan con nuestras reacciones antes de que nos demos cuenta, de modo que nos encontramos instalados allí antes de poder pensar. Estas reacciones son las que nos causan más problemas en las relaciones íntimas.

No sabemos lo larga que es nuestra historia pero sentimos su peso.

Sobre la sombra que yo soy gravita la carga del pasado. Es infinita.

Mir Bahadur Alí, lo hemos visto, es incapaz de soslayar la más burda de las tentaciones del arte: la de ser un genio.

He felt soothed and happy, as if some gentle and invisible hand had removed from his soul the burden of his body.

Oh on my breast in days hereafter Light the earth should lie, Such weight to bear is now the air, So heavy hangs the sky. (Additional Poems, X)

Il lavoro è pesante, ma stare lì a far niente guardando qualcuno che lavora è ancora più pesante, soprattutto se è vecchio

This is the burden we all have to bear, to live a useful life

Lie heavy on him earth, for he laid many a heavy load on thee (suggested epitaph)

Lie heavy on him earth, hor he laid many a heavy load on thee (suggested epitaph)

It would have happened eventually, the revelation of her partialness, that she might need something, that her need could be a burden, but it came so suddenly and so starkly. I forgave her everything I had ever blamed her for and tried to love her more without saying anything.

It's just a thing that sometimes has to be done and even if thirty thousand suffer with you, you suffer alone." She

Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.

I'm telling you this because you didn't ask. I've got it all here, growing like a tumor in my throat. I'm telling you because if I don't, I will choke on it. Everybody knows what happened, but nobody asks. And Elvis the EMT doesn't count because when he asked, he didn't even listen to me answer because he was listening to my sister's heart not beat with his stethoscope. I want to tell. It's mine to tell. Even if you didn't ask, you have to hear it.

She smiles at me. "You know, a secret is only half as heavy if you have some one to carry it with you.