Top 100 Heavy Burden Quotes
#1. I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
Edward VIII
#2. Expectation is an anchor, a heavy burden every man is to first carry and then overcome if he is to ever reach the shorelines of his dreams.
Peter S. Fogg
#3. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#5. Stolid pack-animals are much more fit for carrying loads than thoroughbred horses: who ever subdued their noble speed with a heavy burden?
Seneca.
#6. Remorse is a heavy burden, but in its weight, it has great power to awaken men's souls.
R. William Bennett
#7. And every heavy burden you are called upon to lift hides within itself a miraculous secret of strength.
Lettie B. Cowman
#8. If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
Brandon Sanderson
#9. A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control.
Leonard Cohen
#11. Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#13. There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
Charles Dickens
#14. She has always been somehow weightless, free of the heavy burden of mother tongues, national histories, native soils, homelands, fatherlands, myths, that many of the people around her tote on their backs like a sack of red-hot stones.
Dasa Drndic
#15. My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy burden for me. But I took it on consciously, even though it was torture for me.
Orhan Pamuk
#17. Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#18. Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.
Susan Collins
#19. If men read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains. The
Brandon Sanderson
#20. Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet ... it's so hard to let them go ... to forget ... to move ahead ...
Danielle Steel
#21. It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness.
Maya Angelou
#22. All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.
Alan Dershowitz
#23. The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.
Sri Chinmoy
#24. The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
Jean Racine
#25. Let's stop judging others, and relieve them of the heavy burden they are carrying on their shoulders because of us.
Saurabh Sharma
#26. There was all this wonderful gold, and I felt like it was attacking me. Such a wonderful thing in the world I lived in, but in this world, it was a curse, such a heavy burden to bear.
D.W. Beam
#27. the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor.
Geraldine Brooks
#29. If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.
Eckhart Tolle
#31. I was feeling like a rock in a stream with the water passing by me, not fully engaging in life with this heavy burden hanging over me.
Lisa Bonavita
#32. Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.
Bob Jones, Sr.
#33. Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Oriana Fallaci
#34. I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.
Jeff Melvoin
#35. ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND. 1863-1914. LLIE LIGHTLY UPON HIM EARTH, THO' HE / LAID MANY A HEAVY BURDEN UPON THEE.
John Green
#36. Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.
Anne Provoost
#37. Someone's attention shouldn't have a physical weight, but it does. Hate's a heavy burden; hope is worse.
Josin L. McQuein
#38. Unhappiness is such a heavy burden, those who carry it, when ever possible, unload it onto those around them.
Christopher Price
#39. Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.
Johnny Hunt
#40. It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
Abby Wambach
#41. Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.
John C. Maxwell
#42. Heavy burden is laid on our hearts, so we do not trust in ourselves. But in God gives grace for endurance.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.
John Flanagan
#44. But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness
if only I can get out of this old place and into the right new place, I can become a new person
places a heavy burden on travel.
Walker Percy
#45. Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#46. Expectations is an anchor, a heavy burden every man if the first carry and then overcome if he is to ever to reach the shorelines of his dreams.
Peter S. Fogg
#47. Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
Thomas A Kempis
#49. The majority of us watch the world go by, and adapt to what life hands us, Jonah. But you're different. You can change your world. That seems like a wonderful gift, but I also think it's a heavy burden.
Jason Luke
#50. Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.
Christina Baker Kline
#51. The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#52. Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.
Henry B. Eyring
#53. People are more slothful than timid. Their greatest fear is the heavy burden that uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them.
John Armstrong
#54. If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working.
Thomas Sowell
#56. Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another
Jim Butcher
#57. Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
Alfred Armand Montapert
#59. The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.
Alexander Lukashenko
#60. Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.
Robert Edwards
#61. Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who must bear it.
Robin Hobb
#62. What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Voltaire
#63. When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.
Alastair Reynolds
#64. No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
Barbara Tuchman
#65. The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
May Sarton
#66. I had never been the receptacle of someone's hope, and found this weightless thing to be a heavy burden.
Katherine Marsh
#67. Your burden of life becomes much heavier when there is no one around you to appreciate how heavy the burden you carry!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#69. We cry in our own rooms, remembering a man who will never be here again.The house creaks. Maybe it feels the weight of our grief, maybe the floorboards are buckling because the burden is too heavy.
Rochelle Maya Callen
#70. No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Max Planck
#71. Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.
Anonymous
#72. Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.
Jean De La Bruyere
#73. Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.
Patricia McCormick
#74. Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.
CLAMP
#75. i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA.
#76. If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.
Deborah Ellis
#77. With each word that passes my lips, I feel less heavy. It is as if I am giving him sentences made of stones, and the more I relay, the more of the burden he is carrying.
Jodi Picoult
#79. Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.
Sam Ervin
#80. Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work - and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through beingness.
Bryant McGill
#81. People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.
Hillary Clinton
#82. I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.
Joe Shuster
#83. Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.
Mark Twain
#84. When the burden is too heavy on your heart. Cast the weight upon the Lord, for he cares that, you call out to his holy Name.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
John Lancaster Spalding
#87. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbour's glory should be laid on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken.
C.S. Lewis
#88. Spending one's last moments prostrated before the toilet is the supreme act of repentance. It allows one to relieve a heavy inner burden.
Bauvard
#89. Helen hadn't realized how heavy the burden of hate had been until she was allowed to put it down.
Josephine Angelini
#90. Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.
David Simon
#91. The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.
A.W. Tozer
#92. Why is it so exhausting to uphold someone's heavy, inconvenient burden? Why are we spent from shouldering someone's grief or being an armor bearer? Why is it that lifting someone out of his or her rubble leaves us breathless? Because we are the body of Christ, broken and poured out, just as He was.
Jen Hatmaker
#93. In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure.
A. J. Gallant
#94. Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.
Carsten Jensen
#95. Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.
Robert Ferrigno
#96. The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.
Vinoba Bhave
#97. An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#98. Life ... is a burden. The day about to begin is an oppressive weight ... The erect penis is heavy, even heavier the hanging one. Even the most tender breast has to be dragged along.
Jean Amery
#99. Know this, child. You must always choose life. Even when the burden of heartache seems too heavy a load you must seek the forward path.
Ellen Malphrus
#100. That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.
Robyn Schneider
