Quotes About Burden

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

Sometimes I think of myself as Frodo in the Lord of The Rings. In my case the ring's power is that of almost inconceivable creativity and intellect. But like Frodo's burden it is easily accessible, right there around my neck at all times, exerting its magnetic pull. The temptation to use it, especially when I'm desperately in need of some insight, is almost irresistible." Desh

When it comes to the existence of UFOs, we've reached a tipping point. The burden of proof used to be on the believers to prove that UFOs are real. Now the burden of proof has shifted to the government and military to prove that they're not real. Because the evidence is overwhelming." —Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics, City College of New York

We also spoke about longevity as a burden to younger generations," she continued. "It is. Along with economic collapse, population growth causes conditions to get more and more unsanitary. Contagious diseases spread like wildfire. Massive famines become common. Fighting for survival and fueled by increases in aberrant human behavior, countries war on their international neighbors and soon unleash a nuclear Armageddon on the planet.

The need for sleep could be a terrible burden, but she was glad sleep existed. If it didn't, one would never get any real downtime. This way, no matter what happened the night before, you could wake up and feel like you had a new lease on life, a clean slate, that a chapter had ended and a new one had begun.

We all crave latitude in life, yet simultaneously dig ourselves deeper into domestic entrapment. We may dream of traveling light but accumulate as much as we can to keep us burdened and rooted to one spot.

If the burden of working for little reward in an isolating society stripped of any overriding purpose can be recognised to have an effect on individuals, how could it not also be said to have an effect on society as a whole? Or to put it the other way around, if enough people in a society are suffering from a form of exhaustion, might it not be that the society they are living in has become exhausted?

And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!

Power comes with a price. It's a burden. It demands sacrifice.

By providing ready explanations for whatever particular circumstances the world throws at us, commonsense explanations give us the confidence to navigate from day to day and relieve us of the burden of worrying about whether what we think we know is really true, or is just something we happen to believe.

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

If it's time to let go, JUST LET GO. You can't carry on through life with extra weight on your conscience.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.