Burden Quotes

1396 Burden quotes by 1016 unique authors

I keep my eyes on the sea, waiting to be rocketed into it on a wave of fire. I'll be ready for it to happen… — Tina Fey
The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one. — Barbara Pym
Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Alexia had spent long hours wondering over that mustache. Werewolves did not grow hair, as they did not age. Where had it come from? Had… — Gail Carriger
I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am… — Brent Weeks
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering. — Gregory David Roberts
This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such… — Neal Stephenson
At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened… — Donald Miller
I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. — Jim Butcher
I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be… — Megan Whalen Turner
He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on the middle class… — Maggie Stiefvater
...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days. — Ed Greenwood
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental… — C.S. Lewis
The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep… — Lisa Kleypas
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a… — Mark Twain
You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They… — Oscar Wilde
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy… — Dennis Lehane
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What… — Mahatma Gandhi
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city… — Thomas Paine
A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child — Joseph Bruchac
The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that… — Ernest Becker
Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds… — Guillermo del Toro
I was rejected, never given any expectations. ... Then at least, I won't be a burden to others. It's alright if the only one who… — Jun Mochizuki

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