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Burdens Quotes

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Toni Morrison
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

Anne Carson
“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

Jonathan Safran Foer
“...people with nothing to declare carry the most.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Criss Jami
“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Christine de Pizan
“[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.”
Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc

Kamal Ravikant
“The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.”
Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth

Anthony Liccione
“Even a rock moves on.”
Anthony Liccione

Jana Oliver
“You can't carry the world on yer shoulders, broad as they are.”
Jana Oliver, Forbidden

James Baldwin
“I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

John Ajvide Lindqvist
“That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.”
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Pierce Brown
“All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not burden my fellow students -- I must not let that change. I must not become like them. I'll remember that every sin, every death, every sacrifice, is for freedom.”
Pierce Brown, Red Rising

Nema Al-Araby
“Make sure you don't carry the burden of the whole world on your shoulders, just in case someone needed them to cry.”
Nema Al-Araby

Lydia Millet
“It was them and not them, maybe the ones they’d never been. I could almost see those others standing in the garden where the pea plants were, feet planted between the rows. They stood without moving, their faces glowing with some shine a long time gone. A time before I lived. Their arms hung at their sides.

They’d always been there, I thought blearily, and they’d always wanted to be more than they were. They should always be thought of as invalids, I saw. Each person, fully grown, was sick or sad, with problems attached to them like broken limbs. Each one had special needs.

If you could remember that, it made you less angry.

They’d been carried along on their hopes, held up by the chance of a windfall. But instead of a windfall there was only time passing. And all they ever were was themselves.

Still they had wanted to be different. I would assume that from now on, I told myself, wandering back into the barn. What people wanted to be, but never could, traveled along beside them. Company.”
Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

Tim LaHaye
“All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.”
Tim LaHaye, Tribulation Force

Stuart Hill
“Oskan, do you really believe that I don’t understand exactly what my soldiers are going through? Do you really think I’m a stranger to burdens?” She almost laughed at the bitter absurdity of it all, but she controlled herself, knowing that if she started, she wouldn’t be able to stop.

“They’re lucky, they only have to worry about a flogging if they break ranks and endanger their own lives again. But if I make a mistake, thousands could die, a country could be lost, and who knows what else could be inflicted on those unlucky enough to survive!” Her voice had slowly risen in strength as she spoke, and suddenly she let everything go in a glorious outpouring of emotion.

“Don’t talk to me about burdens, I drew up the plans for them! How many fourteen-year-olds do you know who rule a kingdom at war, who command an army, who keep together an alliance of more species than she can remember, who’s killed more people than she can count, who waits desperately day in, day out, every living blessed second, for the arrival of allies she’s terrified are going to let her down? Please tell me, Oskan, tell me her name. I’d like to have a cozy chat with her and compare notes! I’d like that, it might make me feel just a little less isolated, and just a little less afraid that at any minute the whole sorry, ludicrous, deadly, hellish mess is going to collapse around me, and everyone will finally find out that I don’t know what I’m doing and that I’m making it up as I go along!”
Stuart Hill, The Cry of the Icemark

Paolo Bacigalupi
“Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.”
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities

“How heavy it is to be the only one that carries all the boulders of burdens when once agreed to be a mutual share of suffering?”
D C de Oliveira, Muted: Poetic Abstraction

Richard von Weizsäcker
“Wir lernen aus unserer eigenen Geschichte, wozu der Mensch fähig ist. Deshalb dürfen wir uns nicht einbilden, wir seien nun als Menschen anders und besser geworden. Es gibt keine endgültig errungene moralische Vollkommenheit - für niemanden und kein Land! Wir haben als Menschen gelernt, wir bleiben als Menschen gefährdet. Aber wir haben die Kraft, Gefährdungen immer von neuem zu überwinden."


Richard von Weizsäcker

Mehmet Murat ildan
“Who is human being? He is the crazy person who constantly puts unnecessary burdens on himself, who is crushed like an insect under these burdens, and yet is not at all interested in getting rid of those stupid burdens and achieving the miraculous comfort and speed of lightness!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Aegelis
“Peace of mind isn't about what you do have, it's about what you don't have.”
Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

Ann Petry
“If Abbie knew about this, she'd say that he'd let The Race down. She said colored people (sometimes she just said The Race) had to be cleaner, smarter, thriftier, more ambitious than white people, so that white people would like colored people. The way she explained it made him feel as though he were carrying The Race around with him all the time. It kept him confused, a little frightened, too. At that moment The Race sat astride his shoulders, a weight so great that his back bent under it.”
Ann Petry, The Narrows

Fernando Pessoa
“I consider myself fortunate for no longer having family, as it relieves me of the obligation to love someone, which I would surely find burdensome. Any nostalgia I feel is literary.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Mehmet Murat ildan
“If the person carrying the burden has no complaints, are we to conclude that the burden bearer is content? No! Because there is an ugly philosophy called 'tolerating'! Tolerating prevents rebellion, creates a false problem-free world, and prevents real solution! We can only find truly happy people in a world where people do not put up with all kinds of nonsense!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Some burdens don't come to make you a Sisyphus. They come to show you the path to freedom.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

Nnedi Okorafor
“I relaxed, putting America behind me. What a weight that place put on my shoulders; a woman with wings should never be so burdened.”
Nnedi Okorafor, The Book of Phoenix

Robin S. Baker
“To truly work smarter instead of harder, embrace what you love. When you're passionate about your work, it transforms into an invigorating pursuit rather than a burdensome task.”
Robin S. Baker

Thomas a Kempis
“The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere.

"No matter where you may go, you cannot escape it, for wherever you go you take yourself with you and shall always find yourself."

Turn where you will -- above, below, without, or within -- you will find a cross in everything, and everywhere you must have patience if you would have peace within and merit an eternal crown.”
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

Theodore Roethke
“Wisdom increases and is a burden. I know too many people and why I should love them, and the thought that I love them imperfectly is a constant vexation. My half-life continues. The great error of the American condition: to forget that people are humanity--I don't mean in the cliche sense--but are a part of the whole stream of history, and, whatever else they may be in the Here and Now, should be respected and considered, and loved as far as possible and not thought of as students, colleagues, anonymous neighbors.”
Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

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