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Quotes about Burden

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
— George Bernard Shaw
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
— Thomas a Kempis
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.
— William Faulkner
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.
— John F. Kennedy
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.
— Anonymous
Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.
— Chris Fabry
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?
— Toni Morrison
Her color is a cross she will always carry.
— Toni Morrison
Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.
— Toni Morrison
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? Don't you see, Lord? Your own son couldn't carry it. If it killed Him, what You think it's gonna do to me? Huh? Huh?
— Toni Morrison
If I asked her in what ways you have adjusted your plans and schedule in the past month because you saw that she had a burden or a need you could help meet, would she be able to recall such times?
— Tony Evans