Burden Quotes

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

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.

Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

Laws shouldn't just be about the quality. They should also be about equity and if they're placing a social burden on marginalized groups, then those laws need to be reconsidered.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

My color is my joy and not my burden.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

The burden of the incommunicable.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.

Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.

Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

His goodness stands approved,Unchanged from day to day;I'll drop my burden at His feet,And bear a song away.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

I find all this money a considerable burden.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.