Quote by Jane Austen

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction,…

— Jane Austen

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions.  A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction,…

— Jane Austen

“Some sorrows are so large they cannot be carried by a single pair of hands...”

— Laura Kauffman

“Continuously, you are put in situations that force you to shave off your humanity to fit in places impossibly small, and your bones are…

— Abeer Abdullah

“So, what do you do when you’re too big, in a world where bigness is cast not only as aesthetically objectionable, but also as…

— Lindy West

“If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage…

— Tagore Rabindranath

“She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life that it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained…

— Michael Cunningham

“A body is too small to contain this feeling.”

— René Peña-Govea

I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

— Maggie Shipstead

“This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.”

— Dennis Lehane

“He fears because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink down to his size, or anyone else's, for…

— Rachel Harrison

“In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small. It is the reason why certain people are…

— Marisha Pessl