Quotes About Burden

I carry too much baggage... the baggage of David Lean, Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal.

In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country.

Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.

How I would like to say that I loved my father so much that I could not have lived without him, but such an avowal would be proved false in time. Those that we love, those essential beings, are removed from us at the will of the Almighty, or the devils that usurp him. It is as if a huge lump of lead were lain over the soul, such deaths, and where that soul was previously weightless, now is a secret and ruinous burden at the very heart of us.

Those that we love, those essential beings...it is as if a huge lump of lead were lain over the soul, such deaths, and where that soul was previously weightless, now is a secret and ruinous burden at the very heart of us. Because a lone person takes great comfort from her people, in the watches of the night, even the memory of them.

Ich geh mir mal ein Stück Dreck aus dem Rücken drücken." - Gerlinde

People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

Sometimes costs are made to be borne.

A lifetime of happiness: No man alive could bear it: It would be hell on earth. —George Bernard Shaw

I don't know if you have ever experienced the suffocating confinement of others' expectations on your life, but it is a very difficult burden to bear.

The truth is that there is almost nothing as tiresome as unwanted love.

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.

I know that when you're a teenager - sometimes when you're an adult - what sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it's not. And a lot of the time, it's what makes you great.

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.

For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

The inevitable slip of time weighted on a man's soul.

Even now Henry yearned to run to him, to curl into his arms and beg him to take her burdens on his own broad and capable shoulders. And one part of her mind was convinced that he would not turn her away, that she could trust him.

Doubtless it will be a relief to be free of me and my troubles.

I thought my punishment was to be eternal," her mother said. "It is the millstone I have carried about my neck for well nigh forty years. I thought I would carry it to my grave.