Individual Burden Quotes

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you...

I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.

When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.