Quotes About Burden

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was going to be too much of a burden for him because he had a history of depression.

I definitely carry a little bit of a burden with me, being a gay athlete going to the Olympics. I think that there's pressure on me... It presents an amazing opportunity, and I think that it kind of gives us a chance to shed people's misconceptions and just kind of, like, break down barriers.

In the best of circumstances, the Trump family business and questions about conflicts will be a burden to his presidency. There is no off-the-shelf ethics plan that would cover every possible conflict.

No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

I feel the pressure.

I put myself under immense pressure.

I was putting all those pressures on myself.

I too have daughters, and it saddens me that people think of daughters as a burden.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

For too many of our young people, that once-promised American dream has given way to an American debt burden and a bleak job market.

Get rid of debt now.

Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.

Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

When you have a debt that's strangling you, you're not growing.

When we leave our kids with more student debt than necessary, we've failed them.

I had over $3 million in medical debt as an 18-year-old.

I have too many debts with the wrong people.

Everyone has got demons and stuff they're dealing with.

I developed depression. But I never let people know how down I was feeling. That would have been another burden for my friends to take on. My mind became my biggest enemy.

The biggest thing is separation from family. It's a huge burden to carry and destructive in a lot of ways.

I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.