#Burden Quotes

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The ox suffers, the cart complains.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Fame is a heavy burden.”

“Let us help one another to bear our burdens.”

“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.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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