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Quotes About Burden

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.
~ R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
~ R.C. Sproul Jr.
How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?
~ Rabih Alameddine
Laura answered the door. She tried to smile welcome. Not an easy task. Eyes puffed, skin pallid, shirt stained. Taking care of her brother was draining the life out of her. Succubus in action.
~ Rabih Alameddine
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Oh, why was living so painful, and why were we given these moments of health, if only to realise how burdened with pain we were the rest of the time? Why was it so difficult to live day after day with people and still remember that you were distinct from them and that this was your one mortal life?
~ Rachel Cusk
Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.
~ Ron Wyden
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.
~ Donald Justice
The NHS was hard to deliver, so was the minimum wage. It's time now - we need to have a proper conversation about how much is the individual cost, how much is the burden that we're all going to share together, and how much are we going to put on older adults now versus a future system like national insurance.
~ Jess Phillips
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.
~ Elton Gallegly
David Cameron set impossible targets and relentlessly portrayed immigration as a social burden while pursuing an economic strategy that suppressed wages. It did not end well for him, nor, more importantly, for the country.
~ Owen Jones
I had an enormous responsibility not just to survive but to become a good man because I had all of my family's hopes on my shoulders because they walked around outside without the shield that I carried knowing I hadn't done anything.
~ Nick Yarris
If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.
~ Andrew Yang
Even with me, there are so many things I have bottled up.
~ Parvathy
Fame has become less and less important to me, it's more of a burden than anything else.
~ Fala Chen
The baby boomers have dropped the ball on their burden of responsibility.
~ Meghan McCain
People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
~ Catherine Deneuve
It is a burden that people have expectations about me.
~ Paulo Dybala
Marriage can feel like putting a burden on each other and sometimes kids go with that, too.
~ Leo Sayer
My looks were good enough for what I needed in every possible way but not so much to be a burden.
~ Eileen Atkins
Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.
~ Blanka Vlasic
It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors.
~ Billy Crudup
I'm 69 kilos; I don't have a burden on my back.
~ Neymar
Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.
~ Mother Angelica