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3. “When the Goddess of Fortune deserts a house, she usually leaves some of her burdens behind, and this ancient family was still encumbered with its host of dependents, though its own shelter was nearly crumbling to dust. These parasites take it to be an insult if they are asked to do any service. They get headaches at the least touch of the kitchen smoke. They are visited with sudden rheumatism the moment they are asked to run errands.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Fortune, Burden, Societal Critique, Dependency, Irony
4. “The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.” Rabindranath Tagore Burden, Life Challenges, Emotional Depth, Vulnerability, Existential Inquiry
6. “And in the same way, again, are not the thoughts of men and women in the agony of death often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, internal, intestinal aspect, towards that ‘seamy side’ of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, a side which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?” Marcel Proust Thoughts, Death, Painful, Burden, Crushing Reality, Final Agony
28. “Why must a man be always taking on things not his own, as if he were a servant whose marketing-bag grows heavier and heavier from stall to stall and, loaded down, he follows and doesn’t dare ask: Master, why this banquet?” Rainer Maria Rilke Burdened Life, Silent Servitude, Questioning Purpose, Burden, Servitude, Purpose
Burden Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “When the Goddess of Fortune deserts a house, she usually leaves some of her burdens behind, and this ancient family was still encumbered with its host of dependents, though its own shelter was nearly crumbling to dust. These parasites take it to be an insult if they are asked to do any service. They get headaches at the least touch of the kitchen smoke. They are visited with sudden rheumatism the moment they are asked to run errands.”
Rabindranath Tagore Fortune, Burden, Societal Critique, Dependency, Irony
4. “The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”
Rabindranath Tagore Burden, Life Challenges, Emotional Depth, Vulnerability, Existential Inquiry
6. “And in the same way, again, are not the thoughts of men and women in the agony of death often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, internal, intestinal aspect, towards that ‘seamy side’ of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, a side which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?”
Marcel Proust Thoughts, Death, Painful, Burden, Crushing Reality, Final Agony
28. “Why must a man be always taking on things not his own, as if he were a servant whose marketing-bag grows heavier and heavier from stall to stall and, loaded down, he follows and doesn’t dare ask: Master, why this banquet?”
Rainer Maria Rilke Burdened Life, Silent Servitude, Questioning Purpose, Burden, Servitude, Purpose
