Burden Quotes
Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.
Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.
Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.
Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
People say love is a gift but i say love is a burden, loving someone and having to watch them be in love with someone else.
The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.
The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.
The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.
Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.
The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.
If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.
When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.
American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.
I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.
Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.
Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for ther own reconstruction.
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.
One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.
American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.