Burden Quote by Oscar Wilde

“One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.”

— Oscar Wilde

“His way of coping with the days was to think of activities as units of time, each unit consisting of about thirty minutes. Whole…

— Nick Hornby

“For the moment they wanted to live with the least expenditure, economize words, gestures, thoughts, float: they had only one day in which to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“It was as if he'd suddenly become intimately aware of the fragility of life and how precious time really was. As a result, he…

— Micah Sparks

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source…

— Sallust

“He could not even take comfort in knowing that he had spent most of his adult life in dread of calamities had not materialized,…

— J.K. Rowling

A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious…

— Marcel Proust

“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“He lost, for that moment, all the days and dogmas of his past; his concepts, his problems, his pain were wiped out; he knew…

— Ayn Rand

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

— Jean de la Bruyere

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner