Burden Quotes

If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,like a bee that has gathered too much honey;I need hands outstretched to receive it.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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