Burden Quote by R. Scott Bakker

“But with all their mocking they had only hardened his resolve. And the odd thing was, they took a perverse pleasure in it, as…

— Brenda Rickman Vantrease

“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate…

— Cormac McCarthy

Evil minds that plot destruction, sorcerers of death's construction.

— Black Sabbath

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with…

— Louise Erdrich

“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For himself, he grew desperate; his sorrow was of the king that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed - he cursed and…

— Emily Brontë

“For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator toward his creature were, and that i ought to render him…

— Mary Shelley

“No one else could share his quandary. His agonies were a mixture of shame, of loss fueled by profoundly rooted fury—solitary burdens he had…

— Tom Baldwin

“He didn’t care if he would be a villain in Alastor’s eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time ago that…

— Gauri Sharma

“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits,…

— Michelle Franklin

“Philip exulted, as he had exulted in his boyhood when the weight of a belief in God was lifted from his shoulders: it seemed…

— William Somerset Maugham

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

— Edgar Lee Masters