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Quotes About Burdens

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry
~ Sigmund Freud
He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Why me? A selfish question. Perhaps the most selfish of questions. All burdens, even those as demented as the Apocalypse, must fall upon the shoulders of someone. Why not him?
~ R. Scott Bakker
He said that we of the hidden had our burdens, but those who lived in the open carried far heavier burdens than ours, which was true.
~ Dean Koontz
and women merely because of the way that they treated us. They had anxieties we could never understand. He said that we of the hidden had our burdens, but those who lived in the open carried far heavier burdens than ours, which was true.
~ Dean Koontz
To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the present and promises to be with us in the future until the end point. Only time conquers time and its burdens. There is no grief before or after time, which is all the consolation we should need.
~ Dean Koontz
Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can't remember when a block of it didn't rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can't be repaired. What, if lost can't be replaced. I love my burdens.
~ Dennis Lehane
Il mondo è così complicato, aggrovigliato e sovraccarico che per vederci un po' chiaro è necessario sfoltire, sfoltire.
~ Italo Calvino
The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.
~ Cesar Chavez
If you want to be happy, you can't carry burdens from your past into your future, we all makes mistakes and we all have regrets, some people will learn from them, others will make them again, but life is a tough teacher and will always teach you the lessons you need to learn.
~ Unknown
Burdens and opposition will always be there. What is really needed is a clear solid path towards problem resolution and then being mutually encouraged as a family.
~ Unknown
The 'Elves' are 'immortal', at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
My brother had the faith my father brought him to, and for a long time, I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Music is the key to freeing heavy burdens of one's soul!
~ Unknown
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
~ Van Jones
I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.
~ Claire Danes
It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.
~ Vincent de Paul
Treat others with kindness. You never know what burdens people bear or what they are going through. You may have power to lift their spirits or break them.
~ Unknown
He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.
~ George Saunders
Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
~ David McCallum
We all have our ups and ours downs and sometimes, it seems like our burdens are too much to bear, have faith and believe that God knows your strength and he knows your load and he won't give you more than you can carry.
~ Unknown
Through wisdom, we can easily bear the burdens of this life and respond to our fellow man with charity and patience.
~ Unknown
God is sovereign not only over all creation but also over every circumstance we experience. Trust Him! Give him all your burdens.
~ Unknown
When the burdens of life seem almost impossible to bear. Just know that your friends love you and will keep you in each prayer.
~ Unknown