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Quotes About Burden

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
~ John Updike
The high shelf Where you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm, Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end.
~ John Wain
You will have experienced, perhaps, that feeling of being relieved of a weight that you had not properly realized was there?
~ John Wyndham
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourself so. If you find yourself so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.
~ John Yates
Male violence toward women originated with agriculture, which transmuted women into beasts of burden and breeders of children.
~ John Zerzan
It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It's one of those stories that needs tellin' because it's heavy," Tom said. "Tellin' it makes it easier to carry.
~ Ellen Datlow
It is not the empty cup that we have difficulty in carrying; it is the cup full to the brim that must be carefully balanced.
~ Ellen G. White
If we are sick, we impose a weary tax upon our friends, and unfit ourselves for discharging our duties to our families and to our neighbors.
~ Ellen G. White
Carrying this secret around was a heavier burden than a backpack full of textbooks.
~ Ellen Schreiber
O Lord, give me a daily burden for my children. Teach me how to pray for them, and lead me into effective intercession.
~ Elmer Towns
He's such a drag He's not insane It's just that everybody Has to feel his pain.
~ Elvis Costello
Cine sa te vindece de tine? O tînara fata? Dar cine-i darnic pîna la jertfa, ca sa-ti preia melancolia? Ce suflet pur, dornic de vis si nefericire, sa se-ncumete la o povara ce n-o presimte?
~ Emil Cioran
We should have been excused from lugging a body: the burden of the self is enough.
~ Emil M. Cioran
My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconscious, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Society - an inferno of saviors!
~ Emil M. Cioran
If we did not bear the stigmata of life, how easy it would be to steal away, and how well everything would go by itself!
~ Emil M. Cioran
Having enemies is a heavy responsibility. My burden is sufficient, I no longer can carry that of others as well.
~ Emil M. Cioran
We tell our troubles to someone only to make him suffer, to make him assume them for himself
~ Emil M. Cioran
Nu am dureri de cap, ci mai r?u: o ap?sare permanent? pe creier, o not? funebr? în spirit.
~ Emil M. Cioran
He who chooses time is engulfed by it and buries his genius therein.
~ Emil M. Cioran
And the Temple again shall be built, And filled as it was of yore; And the burden be lift from the heart of the world, And the nations all adore; Prayers to the throne of Heaven Morning and eve shall rise, And unto and not of the Lamb Shall be the sacrifice.
~ bailey philip james ii
The yoke of beauty is easy to bear Since I need not lay it down.
~ baker karle wilson ii
Even though we weren't old, we were old with all we carried inside.
~ baldacci david ii