Daniel Handler Quotes

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

The whole damned country was depending on me.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

There is an awful lot of pressure on me.

Having that main event load to carry is very comfortable for me. Anything less is uncomfortable.

If, for people, Instagram is just entertainment, for me, it's an additional burden.

It is a burden that people have expectations about me.

It's a great thing to have: that pressure everywhere you go, that responsibility. I think it's good to have it.

I have to say that you don't really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders.

I feel like people expect a lot from me.

Things are gradually falling into place on top of me.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.