Burthensome Quotes

#1. Let him! He is great but in his greatness he is no happier than we in our conflict! Goodness would not make evil; and what else hath he made? but let him sit on his vast solitary throne, creating worlds to make eternity less burthensome to his immense existence.

George Gordon Byron

#2. I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide
the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.

H.P. Lovecraft

#3. The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

John Milton

#4. A MAN FINDS happiness so fleetingly, like the petals melting off a prairie rose. Even as you touch that feeling it dries up, leaving only the dust of that emotion, a powder of hope.

Louise Erdrich

#5. Inspiration follows aspiration.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.

Richard Pryor

#7. Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

Maajid Nawaz

#8. I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

Jeffrey Lewis

#9. The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

Hannah Arendt

#10. O, the love of woman is a glorious thing, and strange in its ways of work.

Richard Llewellyn

#11. How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.
With nothing causing it.

Philip K. Dick

#12. Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

Brian Tracy

#13. There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

Thomas Browne

#14. Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

Jacques Maritain

#15. Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

William Gilmore Simms