Quotes About Burden

It's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear, even mine.

Grief weighs nothing but you still have to drag it around.

Sometimes being a genius was a burden.

You are a little soul carrying a dead body, as Epictetus said.

So why take on the burden of matters which you cannot answer for? You are only making unnecessary problems for yourself.

In one major U.S. city, The New York Times reports, unclaimed bodies "are piling up faster than the city can handle them"; boxes containing the personal papers of the deceased are "piled floor to ceiling" in the county office.22 "We had never been so busy before," one Cook County investigator explained, "but nothing about the heat wave was really unusual except the amounts" (see fig

Some of the most painful and debilitating injuries are the hardest to prove.

I pensieri che non dici sono pensieri che pesano, che si incrostano, che ti opprimono, che ti immobilizzano, che prendono il posto delle idee nuove e che ti infettano.

Nasza przesz?o?? ma taki ci??ar, jaki jej nadamy; refleksja i praca pozwalaj? uczyni? j? lekk?.

În fiecare zi furam sticle de alcool, le îngropam pe cele goale È™i aveam nevoie de cantit??i din ce în ce mai mari ca s?-mi alung gândurile.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I'm tired of drowning.

Tell me how you prove coercion? How you prove the difference between being hit on and hunted? How you prove your arms were held down? Your body was touched? Your life was threatened if you ever told anyone? For people who have suffered violent sexual crimes, proof—the very act of proving—is more than just a burden. It is boundless bearing. An eternity of futility.

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

He leaned down & he said, Michael, I will tell you honestly because you've been honest with me, that what you want is a holy human right, and you shouldn't just give it up. I humored him. I said, What right, Harry? The right to feel the burden of carrying your own life. Just you and your family and your boat. No crutches, no excuses.

It's tiring to carry the weight of eternally unsaid words.

This was one of those moments when I realized that my emotional baggage, once a few neatly packed pieces, was now like the Joads' truck, stacked high with old clothes, half a rocking chair, a mule, all barely secured with twine.

Cheever was silent then, appalled, because it sort of hit him. He was going through hell, but his brother had already been there. And his brother was mad because Cheever had gone and foisted his hell on somebody else.

There is no cure for hell," she said softly. "There's only showing it to other people so they can share the burden.

I lied and called it "nothing," simply because it was too exhausting to lay it all out.

Ne pas alourdir ses pensées du poids de ses souliers

The burden of student loan debt weighs heavily on both students and families across New Jersey.

I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.