Quotes About Weight

I've felt the heavy weight of regret and I don't want to return there.

People aren't made to float through the air. Unless we know the weight of our bodies, unless we feel the force of gravity, we'll forget what we are, we'll lose ourselves without even noticing.

I remembered what Odysseus had said about her once. That she never went astray, never made an error. I had been jealous then. Now I thought: what a burden. What an ugly weight upon your back.

The air had a stinging weight like ocean waves. I felt myself a stranger to the world.

Confusing the weight of sins actually hurts our ability to resist temptation.

The horrid old man Sinbad had to carry on his back. That's what you are. You get on the back of everything vital, everything trying to be honest and free, and you bear it down.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate its significance.

She'd become more concerned about wasting days than wasting profits. It was as if her life had suddenly gained an importance and a weight it previously didn't have, or that she'd denied. She didn't know the reason.

I've gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food.

Kummerspeck ("grief bacon") is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself.

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

Diets are essentially traning courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure

The rain falls because the sky can no longer handle its weight. Just like the 'TEARS' fall because the heart can no longer handle the pain.

Getting depressed about being fat is no incentive to lose weight. It just weighs you down!

Complain about being fat. Get depressed. Eat ice cream. Feel happy. Gain 2lbs. Complain about being fat...

You never hear skinny people saying, 'Im just small boned.'

Sh.. I hate when skinny people complain how fat they are.

Im fed up seeing people moaning about being fat, if your so bothered about your weight you would do something about it!

Sometimes you don't realize the weight of a burden you've been carrying until you feel the weight of its release.

In our day, death was preferable. But my father was a practical man. My weight in gold was less than the expense of the lavish funeral my death would have demanded.

It is a string of letters, written in a slanted fashion; the words seem to slide down the page, as if they weigh more at the end of the sentence than at the beginning. He bends to look.

Esme straightens up, weighing the pebble in her palm. 'No,' she says. 'Were they burnt or strangled? Witches were strangled to death in parts of Scotland, weren't they? Or buried alive.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.