Burden Quotes - Page 37

• Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Wise, Feet, Immaturity

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• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Wings, People, Research

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.199

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• How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

  Saint Augustine

  Want, Pay, Miserable

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.281

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• Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

  Milan Kundera

  Weight, Gains

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• Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

  Daniel Defoe

  Eye, Evil, Anxiety

  Daniel Defoe (1822). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe: who was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque, where he resided twenty-eight years. With an account of his travels through various parts of the world”, p.103

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• Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Taken, Discarded

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• The Atonement of Jesus Christ and the healing it offers do much more than provide the opportunity for repentance from sins. The Atonement also gives us the strength to endure "pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind," because our Savior also took upon Him "the pains and the sicknesses of his people" (Alma 7:11). Brothers and sisters, if your faith and prayers and the power of the priesthood do not heal you from an affliction, the power of the Atonement will surely give you the strength to bear the burden.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Brother, Jesus, Prayer

  "He Heals the Heavy Laden". Dallin H. Oaks' priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. October 2006.

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• Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Heart, Sea

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Pride, Weight, Easy

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.82, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Care, Action

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• Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

  Glenn Beck

  Strong, People, Faces

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Jason Wright (2008). “The Christmas Sweater”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know what they're doing either!!! ~ -Joyce Meyers

  Joyce Meyer

  Phones, People, Thrones

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• How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Regret, Heart, Two

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2010). “The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.426, Random House

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• If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Men, Race

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.

  Mary Balogh

  Use, Benefits, Too Much

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• No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

  Lauren Kate

  Should Have, California, Bears

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.556, Delacorte Press

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• God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Giving, Handle

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

  John Owen

  Father, Believe, Love You

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• There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

  Sarah Dessen

  Tired, Past, Heavy

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.131, Penguin

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• Your gift is not a burden," she whispered. "But you must be brave, because it has more power than the sharpest claw.

  Erin Hunter

  Brave, Be Brave, Claws

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• One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

  Ayn Rand

  Importance, Oneself, Absolutes

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.231, Penguin

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• I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Believe, Grateful, Sadness

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• [to Jesus] You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you." You did not come down because, again, you did not want to enslave man by a miracle and thirsted for faith that is free, not miraculous...I swear, man is created weaker and baser than you thought him! How, how can he ever accomplish the same things as you? ...Respecting him less, you would have demanded less of him, and that would be closer to love, for his burden would be lighter.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Jesus, Believe, Men

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• Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Responsibility, Feels, Fairs

  Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.287, Delacorte Press

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• My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

  Bill Watterson

  Historical, Terrible, Significance

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