Burden Quotes

1396 Burden quotes by 1016 unique authors

The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...… — Erich Maria Remarque
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk. — Charles Baudelaire
Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away. — Alice Hoffman
But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt,… — Charles de Lint
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church… — Thomas Merton
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. — Jodi Picoult
[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with… — William H. Gass
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he… — J R Ward
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has… — Milan Kundera
Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware… — Malika Oufkir
Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need… — Martin Heidegger
The Lord shapes the back to bear the burden placed upon it. — Thomas S. Monson
When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load… — Peter McWilliams
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers… — Oscar Wilde
What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age… — Tony Kushner
Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the… — Kristin Cashore
The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load. — Aimee Mann
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of… — Garth Stein
Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo — William Shakespeare
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure — Tacitus
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… — Mark Twain
(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If… — Frank Sinatra
We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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