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Burden Quotes - Page 6

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

I have only my own burden to bear.

"Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

Voltaire, Roger Pearson (2006). “Candide and Other Stories”, p.23, OUP Oxford

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Samuel Johnson (1798). “The Rambler: By Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.108

That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

Rosalind Miles (2007). “The Child of the Holy Grail: The Third of the Guenevere Novels”, p.56, Crown

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Essays, III. 1, 1922.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1919). “The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Dangerous days”