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Quotes About Burden

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
~ Agnes Repplier
Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
~ Alfred de Musset
Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.
~ Amy Waldman
I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.
~ Anna Kournikova
You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
~ Anne Lamott
Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.
~ Brooks Atkinson
I wear the chains I forged in life.
~ Charles Dickens
Look closely and you will see Almost everyone carrying bags Of cement on their shoulders That's why it takes courage To get out of bed in the morning And climb into the day
~ Edward Hirsch
I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night
~ Edward Hirsch
You too heavy a man for me to carry...I done carried heavy men and I know how they can break your back. I ain't got but this one back and I don't want it broke again...
~ Edward P. Jones
What a burden it is to feel responsible for everything. The weight of the world drags you down until the pressure is so great, you no longer feel joyful. About anything.The world has become heavy. But you don't have to carry the world anymore.
~ Edward Weiss
Exchange the burden of the world, for the peace of God.
~ Edward Weiss
She told me about a group of people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads. They are the people of Creation. Strong, tall, and mighty people who can bear anything. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head.
~ Edwidge Danticat
They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head.
~ Edwidge Danticat
A bachelor-life carries the burden of study and observes all subjects; thereupon, marital-life embraces that to qualify and prove mutual life in love and courteous grade.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Between every move of a step of life towards coming after that step, carries and displays the burden of unconscious waiting; thus, every second defines that, as well.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Only Sex can decrease and even bring, into the zero levels, the burden of Sex; consequently, a victim of that becomes tranquil; calm and free from frustration.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
To wait is an uttermost, and unpleasant weight.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
You cannot build stairs on a broken pillar; otherwise, you risk consequences; similarly, you cannot constitute trust again on a broken trust that you broke; as a result, you will have to bear the burden of tears.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
It's tough, Rose, being the only one responsible for another person's happiness. No one should ever be the only one.
~ Eileen Goudge
Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.
~ Eileen Wilks
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself and all things possible. It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Anxiety," Kierkegaard said, "is the dizziness of freedom." This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then—it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt