Quotes About Burden

Kinder machen sich Phantasievorstellungen von ihren Vätern, formen sie sich nach ihren kindlichen Bedürfnissen. Die Realität eines Vaters ist eine Last, die nur wenige Söhne zu tragen vermögen.

London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself and wallowed, accordingly, in the impotence of its selfish, angry present of masks and parodies, stifled and twisted by the insupportable, unrejected burden of its past, staring into the bleakness of its impoverished future.

To agree to keep a secret is to assume a burden

Aceptar mantener un secreto es asumir una carga.

The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.

What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you've done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

I stress a lot, sometimes.

Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

You always were such a worrier. It was as if you thought your worrying was all that held the world together, and if you stopped for a split second the whole thing would just fly apart.

Stress is being responsible for things that you have no control over.

Stressed by any other name is fear.

Even the loveliest shoulders can bear but so much.

As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

She crammed so much knowledge into her head to alleviate the weight in her heart

Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have to make are a burden, too heavy for most to know before their time comes.

I knew that men told you the truth for one of two reasons: when they wished to be rid of what they couldn't bear to carry, or when they wished to include you in what they knew so their stories wouldn't be lost.

Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have to make are a burden, too heavy for most to know before their time comes. He came home plastered, nearly unconscious

I take responsibility for the man I used to be, for I carry him with me. As strong as I am, he's a heavy burden

I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry.