Heavy Burden Quotes

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

The weight of the sky dropped onto Atlas's back, almost smashing him flat until he managed to get to his knees, struggling to get out from under the crushing weight of the sky. But it was too late. "Noooooo!" He bellowed so hard it shook the mountain. "Not again!" Atlas was trapped under his old burden.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

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

The trust that goes with public service is a heavy burden on those who would lead us.

There's a very heavy burden of proof to be borne by anyone who calls for violence. Maybe it can be sometimes justified. Personally, I'm not a committed pacifist, so I think that, yes, it can sometimes be justified.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

The people of Birmingham have a specially heavy burden for they have given the world: the curse of the present British Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940.]

I have this table in my new house. They put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through.

Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.

Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. I've got the most terribly responsible job a man ever had.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

The success is too dearly bought.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to, without the help and support of the woman I love.

They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

There's a lot to do. There's a lot to do. More than I even thought.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.