Quotes About Burden

knew that from now on she would be held hostage by her responsibilities.

Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine.

To carry such vengeful thoughts was a heavy burden

No matter what, the past would follow around. A sorry soul that only grew heavier in each town. She couldn't run away.

A secret is always hard, a stone wedged just beneath the skin. A constant reminder that won't go away, a secret invokes longing; it takes on a life of its own. In order to keep one well, certain things have to be done backward: Laughter instead of tears, a slow walk when the urge is to run. Always deny what is most important, at least in the presence of others.

the sky outside was so gloomy it pushed down on anyone who dared to walk beneath it.

But I hope you will -- use your brains. Use your brains. Don't be distracted. Once you make that mistake, of being -- distracted, over a man, your life will never be your own. You will get the burden, a woman always does.

This is his burden- it never occurs to him to call it love.

Hay algo que creo que deberías saber. Esta puede ser una de las frases más desagradables que puede escuchar una persona. Existen muchas probabilidades de que lo que deberías saber te resulte gravoso, y de que se insinúe que otras personas han tenido que soportar la carga mientras que tú te has librado todo ese tiempo.

No one knew how he continued to do what he did, while simultaneously they wanted him to shut all signs of his grief away, place it in a file somewhere and tuck it in a drawer that no one would be asked to open again.

Being alive begin to seem like a awful strain.

We confuse responsibility with stress. Responsibility becomes stressful only if you are not strong enough to handle it.

The weight of the world       is love. Under the burden       of solitude, under the burde       of dissatisfaction    the weight, the weight we carry       is love.

But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

Vengeance only walks a circle. From blood, back to blood. Death waits for us all. You can follow your path to her bent under a burden of rage. I did, for many years. You can let it poison you." He took a long breath, and let it sigh away. "Or you can let it go.

Along with the constant pain was the constant need to pretend you weren't in pain at all, as though the worst thing about your agony was that it might put other people out.

Vengeance only walks a circle. From blood, back to blood. Death waits for us all. You can follow your path to her bent under a burden of rage. I did, for many years. You can let it poison you.

Here is the perennial trouble with burying your past. Others are forever trying to dig it up.

But guilt only really hurts when there's nothing else to worry about.

You could not even guess at the things that I have done. Awful, evil, obscene. The telling of them alone would make you puke. They nag at me from time to time, but I tell myself I had good reasons. The years pass, the unimaginable becomes everyday, the hideous becomes tedious, the unbearable becomes routine. I push it all into the dark corners of my mind, and it's incredible, the room back there. Amazing, what one can live with.

Doubts and regrets, Isern. They're the cost of casting a shadow.

Undertakers were great ones for persuading grieving folk to spend money they didn't have. That way, debt could follow you even into the Land of the Dead.