Quotes About Burden

There is no greater burden than to be cursed with knowledge.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.

He was one of those people who feel so compelled to fulfill duties that they go plunging into great collapsing edifices constructed entirely of disagreeable duties simply out of the fear that some secret, inconspicuous duty might somehow elude them.

I don't think Emily was quite up to the demands of being everything to Chips. Love lays heavy burdens on the loved one, sometimes

He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.

The burden she carried was different from yours, and it had worn on her for many years. When I knew her she had forgotten joy, although I believe Arlbeth gave her a little back again.

It wasn't the work of the Chalice she minded. It was the vast unfathomable burden of its responsibility. She still felt the Chalice was incomprehensibly beyond her—even wished that it were incomprehensibly beyond her, so she could give up.

Trouble can be purchased cheaply, though the refund may be more than you can bear.

Time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

Murad muttered that everything had to wait till he was older, and at this rate there would be so much piled up for him to do, there would be no time for it all.

Growing up as a miniature adult, burdened with duties, he developed an exaggerated sense of responsibility that would be evident throughout his life.

Since Coster's death the year before, Bacon knew he was in over his head and reeled under the responsibility. "My

The partners shouldered unbearable tasks.

the tasks piled upon Coster had grown "far heavier than any one man ought to bear, or could bear with safety.

He even told me that anxiety and worry about the matter [i.e., university finances] had made him sick

Keeping up the pose of indifference must have taken its own toll.

In this early period, Rockefeller was a chronic worrier who labored under a great deal of self-imposed stress.

Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn't easy. It was like trying to wrestle a king-size mattress off a waterbed.

It seems it's always the innocent who pay the highest price for injustice. It's seemed that way all my life.

He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.

Why, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal.

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.