Quotes About Burden

Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.

We all know when you have a huge price tag on your shoulders, there's always a lot more pressure on you, a lot more expectation.

I've had people ask me if it would have been easier to take care of your parents if you had siblings, and I think it's 50/50. I know people who have siblings, and there is a lot of acrimony because somebody always feels that they are doing more than the other person.

It always seems to me that my life would look completely different if I didn't have to take care of the rent.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

When our family business separation was implemented, as the eldest member of the family, I had taken the entire burden of the debts. I believe, it was my mistake to have told myself that, 'Subhash, you can earn and repay the creditors.'

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

I was always the one asking everybody else if they were O.K. I never talked about my problems. I didn't want to admit I had problems. I just let 'em build up. I didn't want anybody to know I was hurtin'.

We too are yoked to One who is trained. Our only task is to keep in step with him. He chooses the direction and leads the way. As we walk step by step with him, we soon discover that we have lost the crushing burden of needing to take care of ourselves and get our own way, and we discover that the burden is indeed light. We come into the joyful, simple life of hearing and obeying.

What freedom corresponds to submission? It is the ability to lay down the terrible burden of always needing to get our own way. The obsession to demand that things go the way we want them to go is one of the greatest bondages in human society today.

For our sins, He suffered beneath the burden of that unanswered prayer."1 Here

Reality is a two-ton weight strapped to your balls. And they just keep getting heavier.

The families of the missing are doubly burdened: first by the pain of their ordeal, and then by our expectations of them, expectations of a standard of behavior higher than we require of ourselves. As humans, we seek naturally to help fellow creatures in distress. But most of us, whether we are conscious of it or not, expect something back—the flattery of helplessness and of need.

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

Bad memories can attach themselves like barnacles to the hulls of our lives. And, like barnacles, they have a disproportionately large amount of drag.

We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.

Each person's self has become his principal burden; to know oneself has become an end, instead of a means through which one knows the world.

And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.

Disappear and save everyone the bother of a dark suit.

Young as she is, the stuff / Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy: / I wish her a lucky passage.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn't I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

I guess I just had trouble shaking that feeling that I had to take care of everything because no one else could do it right.

She didn't understand what it was like to be filled with a love so strong that it made your chest ache-a love you could only feel and not express. Kepping love buried was a lot like keeping anger pent up, I'd learned. It just ate you up inside until you wanted to scream or kick something.

How many people have died because they would not abandon their baggage?