Quotes About Burden

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

With interest rates rising, gold doesn't pay an interest rate, but every other currency - it becomes not only less important to hold gold as an alternative, but more expensive to hold it as an insurance policy and so that will be a burden on the price of gold.

Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute.

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

Student loan debt is a real problem. People want to have serious conversations about that.

Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

Some days you realise that everything is a burden, both physically and mentally. That it's not about fun, but you have to deliver without a doubt. Even if you are injured.

Most people don't realise there's certain things that players go through off the field. Most times, guys are good at hiding things.

I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

I think the saddest thing is how people take on guilt and blame that isn't theirs or doesn't belong to them, and how hard it is to forgive yourself.

I carry lots of guilt.

It doesn't fill me with joy, being the gun guy.

The sole burden of the partnership's debts fell upon Louise.

There was magic and power in the type. . . . You could never truly finish reading such a book, for the contents changed at need at the original maker's whim, or to suit the phases of the moon or the patterns of the weather. Some of the books had contents you couldn't even remember till certain events might come to pass. Invariably, this was an act of kindness from the creator of the book, for such contents invariably dealt with things that would be a burden to recall with every waking day.

Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." —Matthew 11:28

When you're helping someone through a seemingly impossible burden, God's love will strengthen and heal you both. — Beverly Abear

Our heavenly Father's arms are gentle, but strong enough to carry us and all of our burdens. — Brad Dixon

Choice is a subtle form of disease. Don DeLillo, Running Dog

nadie debe echar sobre sus espaldas fardo que no pueda llevar.