“The terrible burden of having nothing to do.”

“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”

“Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.”

“Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.”

“Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.”

“It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.”

“The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.”

“Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.”

“… you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help… And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.”