(noun) A heavy load.
"To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear."
"As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all."
"If I feel everything, is that a gift or a burden?"
"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear."
"Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind."
"I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."