Quotes About Burden

I experienced my depressions, bursts of anger, sense of entrapment, as burdens my husband was forced to bear because he loved me.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.

With affordable health care, women can have economic security and the peace of mind that they will not become a financial burden on their families.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

Man is the one creature on Earth who knows he will die, and that is an appalling intellectual burden.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Masa lalu tak perlu jadi beban, bila tak sudi jadi pembantu.

Sering kulihat wanita dibebani barang bawaan cukup berat, menggendong, menyunggi, masih mendukung bocah, dan suaminya enak-enak jalan dengan berjual tampang hanya membawa tombak. Ait, terlalu. Pernah kutegur seorang diantara mereka, dan suaminya memang mau membantu. Tetapi pada kesempatan lain tetap juga membiarkan istrinya menjadi kuda beban. Kau tidak boleh begitu, Putih.

The woman was plodding laboriously forward, bent beneath the weight of an enormous sack of chestnuts, while her husband sauntered along with only a rifle in his hand, and another slung over his shoulder; for it is unbecoming for a man to carry any burden but his weapons.

Any man with two wives becomes a porter

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Isn't it strange, when you feel full, you are light as air, but when you feel empty and hollow you feel an enormous weight crushing you down. Will I ever be free from the burden or be able to touch and see without feeling the heartbreak in the heart of things?

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

When I was a child my ineptitude was a burden to my parents and my teachers. They could not see that it was a greater burden to me. I wondered wanly if I would ever discover how to do anything well. At long last I have learned something even better - how not to do anything at all.

My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

A little old lady once said to me, 'I have known a great many men. All of them had to be carried every step of the way.

My fingers will not type the words 'her money became a burden to her' but I do think that her wealth was like a lazy servant — better than nothing but a source of unremitting annoyance because it never filled her most urgent needs.