Weight Quotes

2048 Weight quotes by 1502 unique authors

All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart. — Joanne Harris
It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next… — Jonathan Safran Foer
When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and… — Anais Nin
A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There… — Alain de Botton
He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it… — Sebastian Faulks
If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight. — Augusten Burroughs
From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by… — Rita Dove
...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of… — C.S. Lewis
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine… — Jeffrey Eugenides
People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of… — Rachel Joyce
I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever… — David Levithan
I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is. — Stephen Chbosky
What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had… — John Banville
Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You… — Michael Crichton
The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body. — J R Ward
Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and… — Eleanor Catton
But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all.… — Terry Pratchett
Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist… — George Orwell
Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes… — Kevin Hearne
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know. — Patrick deWitt
No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot… — Allen Ginsberg
Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their… — Laini Taylor
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. — Marina Tsvetaeva

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