“Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?”

“Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence.Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life.Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy.Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise.Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free.Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.”

“What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.”

“Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.”

“We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.”

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