Quotes About Burden

But I know this isn't true. It is just passing the buck, as children do, to mothers. I've mourned for her already. But I will do it again, and again.

Pero cuando los espíritus están agobiados, huyen todos los apetitos.

And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know.

I've felt that I was trying to row a heavily loaded boat in a storm. I've had so much trouble just trying to keep afloat that I couldn't be bothered about things that didn't matter, things I could part with easily and not miss, like good manners and--well, things like that. I've been too afraid my boat would be swamped and so I've dumped overboard the things that seemed least important.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is

Until you have lost your reputation you never know what a burden it was or what freedom is.

Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

The bodies were both a burden to get rid of and treasures he wanted to keep.

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.

Was it pride that made me so extremely anxious to appear satisfied with my lot - or merely a just determination to bear my self-imposed burden alone, and preserve my best friend from the slightest participation in those sorrows from which she had striven so hard to save me? It might have been something of each, but I am sure the latter motive was predominant.

Acredito que, no correr do próximo século, a ideia de que é dever da mulher ter filhos mudará, e abrirá caminho para o respeito e admiração a todas as mulheres, que carregam seus fardos sem reclamar e sem um monte de palavras pomposas!

We were saying, This is hard, but not as hard as it was for you here, weighed down by the anchors of so-called reality. So go now, go, unfettered.

All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.

Because we cannot deal with the many as individuals, we sometimes try to simplify the many into an abstraction called the mass. Because we cannot deal with the complexity of the present, we often over-ride it and live in a simplified dream of the future. Because we cannot solve our own problems right here at home, we talk about problems out there in the world. An escape process goes on from the intolerable burden we have placed upon ourselves.

How grief and the passage of years can leave their mark. How the burden of duty can wear away the body's resilience. - Pg. 242

She's an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only one alive who has shared that time with you. You fear that, the isolation of it, the burden, the scope of eternal life.

Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer!

And she and I, we will take that guilt to our graves of whatever we did and didn't do, or had to do, or failed to do

Lord God, to be born with no talent is bad enough, but to have a macabre and febrile imagination as well is a curse.

buckled under the weight of a loneliness so terrible I would have chosen death then if only I'd had such a choice.