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Quotes About Weight

All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.
~ Anne Michaels
buckled under the weight of a loneliness so terrible I would have chosen death then if only I'd had such a choice.
~ Anne Rice
But the weight of her anguish over Gregory – this one missing airman, this unreliable, perhaps unworthy man – filled her whole upper half, diaphragm, lungs, ribs, shoulders, with such crushing gravity that the sighs with which she was obliged to displace it shook her entire body.
~ Sebastian Faulks
The deeper into the sensation she went, beneath his weight and his urging, the more it was like going into a room of utter darkness, which she felt was familiar from a time before her birth; it was something other, or beyond; it was like death, or very near it.
~ Sebastian Faulks
while I . . . napped on the couch, beneath Breccia, who, like all cats, weighed twenty pounds more asleep than awake.
~ Sharon Lee
I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.
~ Sherman Alexie
I want to rasp into sober cryptology and say something dynamic but tonight is my laundry night. How do we imagine a new life when a pocketful of quarters weighs our possibilities down?
~ Sherman Alexie
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
~ Douglas Coupland
The amount of time I spent on facing my negative conscious has been most of my struggle and changing my mind-set has been the biggest change in my life not my weight.
~ Erin Willett
Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.
~ Francis Collins
It's not me that's obsessed with my weight, it's everyone else. I know that I'm healthy, so I don't really feel the need to answer to anyone. I've never substituted a meal for a salad in my life.
~ Nicole Richie
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't believe I was a fat person for most of my life.
~ Ricki Lake
I've been overweight all my life.
~ Roberta Flack
My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.
~ Sara Rue
Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.
~ Tom Vilsack
I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.
~ Margaret Cho
Shifting to a low-sugar, lower carbohydrate diet is particularly important for people looking to lose weight or repair their metabolism, and it seems prudent for everyone.
~ John Durant
I left, heavy with the words she refused to let me say.
~ John Hart
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
~ John Junor
On bad days, I could feel the whole year swinging underneath me like a dead thing.
~ Elisabeth Thomas
In a moment, the heat would touch him. Kit braced himself for the pain, tilting his chin down to this chest and imagining that his weight flowed like water through his pelvis and down his legs, anchoring him to the floor.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A cold breeze coiled around his ankles with a physical weight, heavy with moisture from the wet paving stones.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The valraven, for all his size and weight, cupped air and settled behind Cristokos silently, except for the hiss of steam and the creak and tick of metal.
~ Elizabeth Bear