Best 391 quotes in «burden quotes» category

The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.

The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.

The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it.

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

There is no greater burden than choosing who to save.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.

There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?

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

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

To friendship every burden's light.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

We're not going to fix the sexual harassment epidemic unless we can acknowledge that this is not a women's issue, this is a man's issue. The burden should not be on the shoulders of women only to solve this, because we can't do it alone and it's not fair. We're seeing now the tsunami of all these women coming forward, which is such a blessing. But the tipping point will be when men in the workplace decide to be our allies.