Usually The Burden Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#3. Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.

James Richardson

#4. business is neither a burden to bear nor a battle to win, but a chance to outgrow fear by helping others outgrow theirs. This

Devdutt Pattanaik

#5. My mother sighed, making me feel that I was placing an intolerable burden on her, and yet making me resent having to feel this weight. She looked tired, as she often did these days. Her tiredness bored me, made me want to attack her for it.

Margaret Laurence

#6. The more you know
the more there is to know,
the more you learn
the more there is to learn,
the more you understand
the more there is to understand.
This burden upon us is called life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

Anton Chekhov

#8. Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Jeremy Collier

#9. The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Quentin Crisp

#10. That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good.

Brent Weeks

#11. If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me.

David G. McAfee

#12. Every secret we confide in another
person can be a burden to them

Henning Mankell

#13. My heart is properly cultivated ... and is not left to wither under the burden of cold erudition, and my religious feelings are not deadened by theological inquiries.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

#14. These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace and they have real consequences on the every day lives of workers.

P. M. Forni

#15. What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.

Duncan D. Hunter

#16. God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.

Tina Samples

#17. I winced. "I shouldn't have said that." "You once put goose droppings in my shoes, Alina. A bad mood I can handle." He glanced at me and said, "We all know the burden you're carrying. You don't have to bear it alone." I

Leigh Bardugo

#18. Freedom means choosing your burden.

Hephzibah Menuhin

#19. If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too great.

Alexander McCall Smith

#20. Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we
the white race
have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

Gore Vidal

#21. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.

Joss Sheldon

#22. If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

Yoko Ono

#23. I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

Alexis Denisof

#24. Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.

Brook Tesla

#25. In Damascus:
the traveler sings to himself:
I return from Syria
neither alive
nor dead
but as clouds
that ease the butterfly's burden
from my fugitive soul

Mahmoud Darwish

#26. One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It's my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders.

Marcel Marceau

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 'She's an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only one alive who has shared that time with you. You fear that, the isolation of it, the burden, the scope of eternal life.

Anne Rice

#30. It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you are only partly human yourself. Soon you will not have any traces of that left.

Kay Harding