Burden Quote by Oswald J. Smith

“Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

— Jonathan Raban

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

— Jean-Francois Ducis

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

— David Guterson

When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets…

— Orhan Pamuk

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs…

— Charles Dickens

“Why do you weep? Is it the The hurt or bitterness Buried deep beneath Are you the only one? That has known suffering Or…

— Aimee Fitzy

There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.

— Billy Graham

“Only after something is done do we truly realise it cannot be undone. Never had a night seemed to me so ill-omened; never had…

— Yasmina Khadra

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

— Dante Alighieri

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

— Francis of Assisi

I have a silent sorrow here; A grief Ill neer impart; It breathes no sigh, it sheds not tear, But it consumes my heart.

— Anonymous