Weight Quotes

2048 Weight quotes by 1502 unique authors

Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in… — Gary Snyder
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. — Emily Dickinson
We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most.… — Susan Fletcher
Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of… — Banana Yoshimoto
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to… — Haruki Murakami
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed… — Eudora Welty
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that… — Lois McMaster Bujold
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. — Terry Pratchett
I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked “good”. Do you know what I mean? That nice… — Stephen Chbosky
The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we… — William Shakespeare
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the… — Jeanette Winterson
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when… — Samuel Adams
He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what… — Diane Setterfield
Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a… — Bill Bryson
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his… — Milan Kundera
To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. — Frantz Fanon
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. — Sarah Dessen
And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not… — James A. Baldwin
Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost. — Terry Goodkind
I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into… — John Ciardi
The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel… — Jeffrey Eugenides
You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the… — A.L. Kennedy
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you… — Michel Foucault
Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live… — Alan Lightman

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