Quotes About Burden

Our shadows are our histories. We drag them everywhere.

She is in charge of everything, but no one knows. It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be responsible for every little thing, every infant born, every leaf falling from every tree, every wave that breaks onto the beach, every ant on its journey.

In a life you accumulate so many memories, your brain constantly winnowing through them, weighing consequence, burying pain, but somehow by the time you're this age you still end up dragging a monumental sack of memories behind you, a burden as heavy as a continent, and eventually it becomes time to take them out of the world.

Uninsured care happens in this country, and here's the problem. It's not properly accounted for. The people who pay for uninsured care at the moment are the hospitals and the doctors and all of the medical providers.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

I don't think there's anybody that puts more pressure on himself than I do.

I was just too heavy, flat out too heavy.

I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.

I cast this burden of resentment on the Christ within, and I go free, to be loving, harmonious and happy.

But, strange as it seemed to him, there were minutes- sometimes half hours- when, without his knowing why, the black burden seemed to lift itself again and he knew he was a living man and not a dead one.

Nikakva vatra ni studen ne mogu se mjeriti s onim što je ?ovjek kadar nagomilati u svome sablasnom srcu.

She wasn't crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he'd seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn't that big a girl to hold all of it—to hold her brother's life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that.

Staying awake seemed like a gift until, as so often happens with gifts, it became a burden.

This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest. JESUS, MATTHEW 11 : 29

It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.

When she felt the tears coming up, building like a great hard pressure inside her, hot, so hot she thought they would burn, she swallowed them down deeper and deeper until they became a hard little stone in her chest.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

Piatra e grea ?i nisipul apas?, dar furia neghiobului e o povar? care le-ntrece.

On my arrival I was told to come to this place at this time. That is what I know." The least thing that is known shall govern your acts. This was the course of evidence for the Gowachin. McKie's response put a legal burden on his questioner.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is an agreement and a tradition upon which to build.