497 Quotes About Burden

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

Think of yourselves as dung beetles. Yes! Dung beetles lug their balls of dung around… We all have our own ball of dung to lug around. We’re all dung beetles, in our own way.

Away from Lev, she craves his need for her. When with him, it enervates. Why is that? She cannot help it. Nothing to be done. Only with her sister is she unfettered. Tasha never makes her think about it, the terrible stature of love. Its shape, size, weight, the long shadows it casts. With Tasha she never goes cold as stones in a river, as Lev will accuse. You are suddenly so cold! Cold as stones in a river! What have I done wrong? he complains. Nothing. Nothing, my darling.

... and we may find that sadness, anger, and gravity all have the same effect… they simply weigh us down.

I have read some books of philosophy in which the freedom of burdens is explained, that somehow we are all seeking some appropriate burden. Until we find it, we are horribly shackled, can in fact scarcely live.

Most of us, are running after the money, sex, and power. In some or full extent, bearing the burden of the stress, and making the own life terrible.

Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences.