“This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.”

“Under loves heavy burden do I sink.
--Romeo”

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

“The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.”

“The wayfaring man, Christ Jesus, has helped many and many a tired traveler home with burdens quite as heavy as yours. Often and often He goes up and down this thoroughfare of life in search of just such overladen pilgrims; and His voice is sounding forth above all the babble of the busy tongues and the clatter of the busy wheels, saying, — "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."”

“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.”

“Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.”

“A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control.”

“Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.”

“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”