Quotes About Burden

On bad days, I could feel the whole year swinging underneath me like a dead thing.

If your health should suffer, what grief upon grief to those who grieve already! And besides, we who have to live are not to lie down under the burden. There will be time enough for lying down presently, very soon; and in the meanwhile there is plenty of God's work to do with the body and with the soul, and we have to do it as cheerfully as we can.

Miss Barrett, for her part, shrank from burdening the life of the man she loved with a responsibility so trying and perhaps so painful, and refused his unchanging devotion for his sake, not for her own.

It is possible to erase and mortify yourself to the point where you actually make more work for the people around you, because they are constantly doing emotional labor to support you. A well-developed martyr complex becomes a means of getting attention without ever having to take the emotional risks of asking for attention.

Relationships with the blood put a strain on mortal partners, and though Sebastien tried to spread the burden, he worried.

Memories weigh something. They weigh you down.

It was in me, this terrible history. It was part of me, and I could not get it out.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown.

his gaze. 'But then my responsibilities would be much greater

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Death is the privilege of human nature And life without it were not worth our taking Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and Mourner Fly for relief & lay their burdens down.

Living as she did in a state of perpetual nervous exhaustion, always driving herself beyond her strength lest the tasks of home and parish accumulate beyond her ability to cope with with them, afraid to relax lest she collapse altogether, she had largely lost the power of wonder, and with it the power of looking at familiar things with fresh appreciation.

Once unloaded, everything has to be lugged through

Everyone has a burden to bear, and no one else can carry it for us. It's our very own chimidunchik." "That

Before the trip I read that pilgrims often bring a small rock or stone from their home. It represents a burden they've been carrying or a loved one they are grieving or a sin for which they're doing penance. At some point on the Camino, they lay down that stone. The most popular place is at the Cruz de Ferro in Spain, the highest point on the Camino Frances.

It isn't life that weighs us down–it's the way we carry it.

the sense of apology did not go away; it was a tiring thing to carry. —

It's our duty to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.

She did not say, and only fleetingly did she think: And you have always taken up so much space in my heart that it has sometimes felt to be a burden.)

It hurt my heart with a heaviness as though a damp and dirty dishcloth lay across it.

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself to pick up the extra load.

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.