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Quotes About Burden

A great burden for one word, Lord. Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
~ Frank Herbert
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
~ Frank Herbert
Dames. Sometimes all they got to do is let it out and a few buckets later there's no way you'd ever know.
~ Frank Miller
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
~ Franz Kafka
I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.
~ Franz Kafka
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
~ Franz Kafka
it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.
~ Franz Kafka
I carry the bars within me.
~ Franz Kafka
I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.
~ Franz Kafka
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
~ Franz Kafka
I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be on one's guard against them.
~ Franz Kafka
Gece gündüz, uykuda olsun, uyan?k olsun, vücuduna saplanm?? bir oku ta??mak demek. Çekilir ÅŸey deÄŸil bu.
~ Franz Kafka
Everyone has his cross to bear.
~ Franz Kafka
Wherever I turn, the black wave rushes down on me.
~ Franz Kafka
I did not fall heavily, nor did I feel any pain, but I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be one's guard against them. Yet nothing seemed more natural than to lie here on the grass, my arms beside my body, my face hidden.
~ Franz Kafka
This afternoon I couldn't get out of bed, not because I was too tired but because I was too heavy - again and again that word, it's the only one that fits me, do you understand this at all? It's something like the "heaviness" of a ship which has lost its rudder and which says to the waves: I'm too heavy for myself and for you too light.
~ Franz Kafka
Ocurrió que el cerebro no pudo soportar más las preocupaciones y dolores que le habían sido impuestos. Y entonces dijo: Me doy por vencido; pero si alguien sigue interesado en mantener la unidad, que me alivie y recoja parte de mi carga; así tiraremos un poco más.
~ Franz Kafka
Pensó cómo en otros tiempos había pronunciado su nombre con entera libertad, pero ahora suponía una carga para él
~ Franz Kafka
Usko kuin kirves. Yhtä raskas, yhtä kevyt.
~ Franz Kafka
sometimes a thousand shoulders quake under a burden meant just for one.
~ Franz Kafka
29. Ukryte myÅ›li, którymi chÅ'oniesz zÅ'o, nie sÄ… twoje, lecz zÅ'a.
~ Franz Kafka
their position is no easy one, nor should one do them the injustice of regarding it as such.
~ Franz Kafka
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
~ Jim Hightower
For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
~ Countee Cullen