Quotes about Burden

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching" than to say My heart is broken.

Worries, he'd learned, are like rabbits: they compound in the dark.

There is no grater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

The camel, at the close of day, Kneels down upon the sandy plain To have his burden lifted off And rest again. My soul, thou too should to thy knees When daylight draweth to a close, And let thy Master lift the load And grant repose.

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.

Gimme hate, Lord," he whimpered. "I'll take hate any day. But don't give me love. I can't take no more love, Lord. I can't carry it...It's too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain't it heavy? Jesus? Ain't love heavy?