Burden Quotes

1396 Burden quotes by 1016 unique authors

The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves when Christ most… — Andrew Peterson
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept… — Ayn Rand
I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I… — Yann Martel
If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because Godâ€™s… — Fulton J. Sheen
I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond… — Juliet Marillier
Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on manâ€™s shoulders; and when the attempt is… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Jemâ€™s eyes had widened, and then heâ€™d laughed, a soft laugh. â€œDid you think I did not know you had a secret?â€ heâ€™d said. â€œDid… — Cassandra Clare
Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery. — Laini Taylor
Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others. — Cassandra Clare
How could you have guessed?â€ Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. â€œI did all… — Cassandra Clare
I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for… — Cassandra Clare
We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins. — Cassandra Clare
Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified... — Patricia Briggs
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings. — Nicholas D. Kristof
It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck… — George MacDonald
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The… — J.R.R. Tolkien
it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but… — Franz Kafka
you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that,… — Khaled Hosseini

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