“…burdened with the unbearable weight of ourselves.”
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Joseph Joubert 253
French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”
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“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899), The Man With the Hoe (1898)
Context: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes.
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xix (See also: Jackie Robinson)