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Quotes About Heaviness

Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
~ Victor Hugo
The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness, fear adventure; and there is adventure in the ideal.
~ Victor Hugo
Her despair may have gone, but it had left its heaviness draped over her, thick and bleak.
~ Laini Taylor
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Up the steps he goes, into the drab office block. A heaviness in the corridors. He walks along, shaking hands, touching shoulders. He knows every single one of their names. They are polite, deferent—scared, too. If they are to own it, they are also the ones to lose it. A valuable thing. Once in a thousand years. Peace.
~ Colum McCann
The earth hangs heavy beneath me.
~ Virginia Woolf
Život s ohledem na prakti?nost a pohodlí dosedl na jiskru v jejím nitru jako tlustá, t?žká deka.
~ Celeste Ng
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone else
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
As he sat before the elderly Irishman in his boxcar, the moment of realization suddenly tumbled into Elefante's consciousness with startling efficiency, landing on his insides with a heaviness that felt like a blacksmith's hammer falling on an anvil.
~ James McBride
I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.
~ Ariel Pink
Low hangs the moon, it rose late,  It is lagging - O I think it is heavy with love, with love.
~ Walt Whitman
The hand upon his shoulder weighed like a hand of lead. It was intolerable. It seemed to crush him.
~ Oscar Wilde
At night, this is a heavier world.
~ Dan Brown
In the months since Challenger, Baedecker had found it hard to believe that the country had ever flown so frequently and competently into space. The long hiatus of earthbound doubt in which nothing flew had become the normal state of things to Baedecker, mixing in his own mind with a dreary sense of heaviness, of entropy and gravity triumphant.
~ Dan Simmons
The dark Again has prayed the light to come Down into it, to animate And move it in its heaviness. So what was still and dark wakes up, Becomes intelligent, moves, names Itself by hunger and by kind...
~ Wendell Berry
It was as if that lofty infinite canopy of heaven that had once towered above him had suddenly turned into a low solid vault that weighed him down, in which all was clear, but nothing eternal or mysterious.
~ Leo Tolstoy
urrrgggh, whyyyyy, narwhals are heaaaaavy and I'm reeeeeeeading,' and you'd say, 'but I want one! right now!' and I'd say, 'then go GET one, bossytail,' and you'd bellow, 'I AM YOUR QUEEN!' and I'd be like, 'yes, but this book is at a really exciting part though,' and theeeeen you'd probably have me executed.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Heavy kettlebells are traditionally called "bulldogs. "Heavy" is in the eye of the beholder; we usually dump the bells heavier than 32 kilograms in that category. 48 kilograms is as heavy as traditional kettlebells go, but it does not stop Russia's strongest from going heavier. Weightlifting legend Yuri Vlasov was heartbroken when someone stole his custom-made 56-kilogram kettlebells.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
~ William Shakespeare
You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.
~ William Shakespeare
Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event. ... Therefore be merry, coz; since sudden sorrow Serves to say thus: Some good thing comes tomorrow.
~ William Shakespeare
Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilerated speechlessness.
~ Yann Martel
a problem of the soul, a heaviness of the heart, a darkness of the conscience
~ Yann Martel
Dá-me a tua mão desconhecida, que a vida está me doendo, e não sei como falar – a realidade é delicada demais, só a realidade é delicada, minha irrealidade e minha imaginação são mais pesadas.
~ Clarice Lispector