Quotes about Burden
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
- Oscar Wilde
Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
- William Faulkner
It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.
- William Faulkner
Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
What God does is promise us, I will be with you; you will feel burdened but you will never feel abandoned.
- Harold S. Kushner
I know that this is a painful time for you. But I know that you will get through it all right, because God never sends us more of a burden than we can bear. God only let this happen to you because He knows that you are strong enough to handle it." Harriet Schiff remembers her reaction to those words: "If only I was a weaker person, Robbie would still be alive.
- Harold S. Kushner
All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
- Ellen White
My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.
- Oscar Wilde
I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. "But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me.
- Oscar Wilde
I can't imagine the pressure you must be under to have the weight of an entire country on your shoulders.
- Dale Carnegie
"Brothers, our toil and hardship, we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you."
- 1 Thessalonians 2: 9