65 Burden Quotes

Oluwatosin Michael
Sep 28, 2023 By Oluwatosin Michael
Originally Published on Oct 27, 2022
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These burden quotes will help you find more power to get through these.

You will find some strong quotes within these burden quotes to make you feel powerful.

A burden in life is a thing that weighs our lives and hearts down. These may be guilt, grief, fear, sorrow, illness, loss, judgment, and financial hardships.

One of the most powerful quotes about burden is "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." by Shakespeare from the play 'Henry IV Part 2'. This phrase means that people with huge responsibilities are heavily burdened, making it hard for them to relax.

This quote has been re-phrased as "Heavy is the head that wears a crown." by the modern world's songwriters, authors, and poets.

One famous and most used burden quote is "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." by Friedrich Nietzsche. Below are some burden quotes for everybody to hope for a better future.

Quotes On Feeling Like A Burden

If you are looking for inspiration to deal with the burden of the world, then read this list of quotes about feeling like a burden.

"I know that when you're a teenager - sometimes when you're an adult - what sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it's not. And a lot of time, it's what makes you great."

- MTV Movie Awards, 2012, Emma Stone.

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

- Tokugawa Ieyasu.

"No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days."

- Max Planck.

"Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind."

- 'Buddhism Suffering', Lachlan Brown.

"A feeling can be a burden and a freedom and she loves wildness of this sky..."

- Back Space, October 31, 2018, @backspace.

"The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart."

- Bishop, 'The Young King', Oscar Wilde.

"Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off."

- Denis Diderot.

"Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted."

- 'For One More Day', Mitch Albom.

"Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens."

- 'Gratitude Journal', Matt A. Stevens.

"The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong."

- 'Marrow', Robert Reed.

"Sometimes you don't realize the weight of a burden you've been carrying until you feel the weight of its release."

- Faithyg, December 30, 2013, @faithyg

"If God can turn night into day then He can turn your burden into a blessing Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."

- Merle Miller.

"Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior."

- Richard G. Scott, 2002.

"It is a burden to be challenged to discover your promise land."

- Sunday Adelaja.

"Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone."

- Goran Persson.

"It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb."

- Abby Wambach.

"You are not a burden. You have a burden, which by definition is too heavy to carry on your own."

- Tiny Buddha, January 31, 2015, @tinybuddha.

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Quotes On Being A Burden To Someone

 

Check out these interesting being a burden to someone quotes below.

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta.

"It has always seemed that a fear of judgement is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity."

- 'Killosophy', Criss Jami.

"Her burdens were her own and burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them."

- 'Gone With The Wind', Margaret Mitchell.

"Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin.

"You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there."

- Brandon Lee.

"Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries."

- Astrid Alauda.

"When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller."

- 'The Little Guide To Your Well-Read Life', Steve Leveen.

"We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load."

- Ann Romney.

"Feels like a burden, the reflection in the mirror unprepossessing, unsightly but real. And feels like abomination, the smile in that reflection concealing yet unproductive and fake."

- Sagar Rawate.

"People with anxiety always feel alone in their own head, and also hate to feel like a burden to others."

- November 1, 2016, www.thoughtcatalog.com, Lauren Jarvis-Gibson.

"Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, and the burdens of life can too."

- 'The First Phone Call From Heaven', Mitch Albom.

"No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear."

- 'Raising Kids With Character That Lasts', John Yates.

"Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness."

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

"If thou desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself."

- 'The Richest Man In Babylon', George Samuel Clason.

"Blessings and burdens are not mutually exclusive."

- 'The Obstacle Is The Way', Ryan Holiday.

"A traveler cannot bring a better burden on the road than plenty of wisdom, and he can bring no worse a burden than too much alcohol."

- 'The Poetic Edda', Jackson Crawford.

"That which comprises the hardest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does not require service of those he leads but provides it to them...A king does not expend his substance to enslave men, but by his conduct and example makes them free."

- 'Gates Of Fire', Steven Pressfield.

Heavy Burden Quotes

There are burdens of fear, gratitude, and sorrow in the world. These heavy burden quotes below cover all of these feelings and more.

"Sorrow is a heavy burden; it must not be carried for a long time!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

"Some people are silently struggling with burdens that would break our backs."

- Wayne Gerard Trotman.

"Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow."

- Mark Twain.

"Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go...you are a part of everything."

- 'Unapologetically You: Reflections On Life And The Human Experience', Steve Maraboli.

"Under love's heavy burden do I sink."

- Romeo, 'Romeo And Juliet', William Shakespeare.

"The heaviest of burdens in therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to earth, the more real and truthful they become."

- 'The Unbearable Lightness Of Being', Milan Kundera.

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

- Brandon Sanderson.

"Heavy burden is laid on our hearts, so we do not trust in ourselves. But in God gives grace for endurance."

- Lailah Gifty Akita.

"Resentment is a burden too heavy and painful to bear."

- Debasish Mrigha.

"There was something heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back."

- 'Just Listen', Sarah Dessen.

"My soul's a burden to me, I've had enough of it. I'm eager to be in that country. I don't belong here."

- Albert Camus.

"Life is mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have to make are a burden, too heavy for most to know before their time comes."

- 'The Rules Of Magic', Alice Hoffman.

"Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don't have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing."

- Cassandra Clare.

"None knows the weight of another's burden."

- George Herbert.

"The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail."

- Amitendranath Tagore.

"He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his followers to keep up."

- 'The Autobiography Of Malcolm X', Malcolm X.

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."

- George Bernard Shaw.

Financial Burden Quotes

Check out these financial burden quotes to motivate and inspire your financial life.

"If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work-it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it."

- Kapil Dev.

"My only refuge, as a serious young man, from despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those affordable by my studies."

- Albert Einstein.

"If the childhood obesity pandemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health."

- Richard Carmona.

"Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water."

- Jewel.

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden."

- Corrie Ten Boom.

"Priority-wise, it simply makes sense to take care of yourself before you start searching for a higher meaning. You aren't much good to anyone else if you're unhealthy, a financial burden, or an emotional basket case. Fix yourself before you turn outward. It's best for everyone."

- Scott Adams.

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

- John F, Kennedy, January 20, 1961, Washington D. C.

"Freedom means choosing your burden."

- Hephzibah Menuhim.

"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."

- Aeschylus.

"Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest."

- Peace Pilgrim.

"One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his life and paid his own price for living it."

- 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray', Oscar Wilde.

"My poor dad said 'You need to know a lot about one specialty.' My rich dad said 'You need to learn a little about a lot of things.'"

- 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad', Robert Kiyosaki.

"Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash."

- Bo Diddley.

"Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing."

- Thomas Tusser.

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Written by Oluwatosin Michael

Bachelor of Science specializing in Microbiology

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Oluwatosin MichaelBachelor of Science specializing in Microbiology

With a Bachelor's in Microbiology from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Oluwatosin has honed his skills as an SEO content writer, editor, and growth manager. He has written articles, conducted extensive research, and optimized content for search engines. His expertise extends to leading link-building efforts and revising onboarding strategies. 

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