Burden

Famous quotes containing the word burden:

“Then she took up her burden of life again
Saying only, “It might have been.””
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

“for beauty with sorrow
Is a burden hard to be borne:
The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there;
That music, remote, forlorn.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)

“Christianity came into existence to lighten the heart, but now it needs to burden the heart to start with so it can lighten it afterwards. Consequently, it will perish.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)