Burden Quotes

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

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.

The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load.

For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.

The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

Because of something told under the famished hornOf the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Princes have but their titles for their glories,An outward honor for an inward toil;And, for unfelt imaginations,They often feel a world of restless cares.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.

God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.

Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.' 'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf. 'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?' Gandalf did not answer.

A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsoughtUpon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Fame is a heavy burden.

For the weariest road that man may wendIs forth fromn the home of his father.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.