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Quotes About Heaviness

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
~ Milan Kundera
The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now take time to play, laugh, and, every once in awhile, sleep.
~ Marc Lamont Hill
I feel so tired, so tired . . . worn out, heavy. I've got indigestion and my tummy's all blown out. I feel sleepy all the time.
~ Eugene Ionesco
This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.
~ Anita Barrows
I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.
~ Leif Enger
For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.
~ Pauline Kael
The old self seemed unprecedentedly heavier than the surrounding atmosphere.
~ Aldous Huxley
An empathetic Indigo can feel this heaviness as if the tragedy were personal. This is where confusion can occur for the Indigo who can't tell the difference between their own feelings and those of someone else. It can feel the same, because heavy feelings are heavy feelings regardless of their origin. It
~ Doreen Virtue
Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!
~ Anne Michaels
Era já de madrugada E eu acordei sem razão, Senti a vida pesada. Pesado era o coração.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Osmium is the heaviest matter in the world, and now that I think about it, that's what my dad needed. He needed superheavy shoes made with osmium soles to hold him down to earth. You know how he said that whole thing about how music was space, and he didn't need to fly off to some other place because everything was so beautiful right here
~ Ruth Ozeki
Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
He felt that nonsense and beauty have close connections,—closer connections than Art will allow,—and that both would remain when his own heaviness and his own ugliness had perished.
~ E.M. Forster
the gray rain-storm which looked as if it would go on forever and ever. She watched it so long and steadily that the grayness grew heavier and heavier before her eyes and she fell asleep.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
For now my grief is heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
~ Frank Herbert
For now my grief is heavier than the sands of the seas... This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
~ Frank Herbert
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas
~ Frank Herbert
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
~ Franz Kafka
This afternoon I couldn't get out of bed, not because I was too tired but because I was too heavy - again and again that word, it's the only one that fits me, do you understand this at all? It's something like the "heaviness" of a ship which has lost its rudder and which says to the waves: I'm too heavy for myself and for you too light.
~ Franz Kafka
We also know people who are definitely not fun to be around. There's a heaviness to their presence, an agitation to their energy. And they often leave us feeling dissatisfied and drained, as if something has been taken away, instead of given to us. These are the energy vampires. They send out hateful signals because, no matter how they may behave, they're inwardly hateful to themselves.
~ Sandra Anne Taylor
Sometimes it seemed as if the burden of each death was added to the others until she was bowed under the weight of dead souls.
~ Sandra Dallas
No, but I feel as if a big stone is pressing me here.
~ Johanna Spyri