Quotes About Weight

But I did not go back to sleep. I stayed awake and I thought: We all live with people—and places—and things—that we have given great weight to. But we are weightless, in the end.

Greek loom weight showing an owl spinning wool. The

When you're flying, the changing balance of lift and weight pulls you up or down. But another pair of forces pulls you forward or backward through the air: thrust and drag. Thrust is the power that pulls the kite forward—you run with it to get it up in the air. You have to have thrust to create lift. Drag is there because your kite's surfaces push against the air and slow the kite down. Drag doesn't pull you out of the sky; it makes you fly more slowly.

It's one of those stories that needs tellin' because it's heavy," Tom said. "Tellin' it makes it easier to carry.

If your husband is overweight, don't ask him how much he weighs or sneak up behind him when he stands on the bathroom scale.

David Garner, an eating disorder specialist, has explained that the best way to gain weight is to go on a diet to lose weight!

It is not the empty cup that we have difficulty in carrying; it is the cup full to the brim that must be carefully balanced.

Carrying this secret around was a heavier burden than a backpack full of textbooks.

He shifted his weight, and she saw he was leaning on a cane. It was hard to reconcile this infirmity with the muscled brute he appeared to be, but of course there was no way that strength could compensate for a partially missing limb.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

We should have been excused from lugging a body: the burden of the self is enough.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be. — Emil Cioran, The Book of Delusions (? Humanitas, January 1, 1991) Originally publishedJanuary 1, 1936

When I think of all the agonies on this earth, I know there are souls which could not be lifted by cohorts of angels, so heavy they will not be able to rise at the Last Judgement, frozen in the barenness of their own curses. Only light souls can be saved: those whose weight will not break the wings of angels.

Having enemies is a heavy responsibility. My burden is sufficient, I no longer can carry that of others as well.

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.

Is adoration a blasphemy or the key to life, to life eternal, our weight in the balance of the grace of God? (Must Jesus bear the cross alone!)

All women had been cursed from the cradle; all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men.

I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful enough to take the weight off his heart, that heaviness that dragged him down, into the beyond, making him yearn to be at peace.

It felt like the inside of my stomach had turned completely black. Like a black hole. You could throw in anything you liked, I wouldn't even notice—my head was drifting through the clouds—everything would just go right in, things just kept going in... I was dragging all this black stuff along behind me, it was so heavy I could barely stand.

if you come to know lots of different people's dreams, like you did, maybe you reach a point from which you can't return, and maybe that weighted down on you so heavily that in the end there was nothing you could do but die.

I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful enough to take the weight off his heart, that heaviness that dragged him down, into the beyond, making him yearn to be at peace. My body sensed it. And my soul.

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Hay que aprender a pasar la vida balanceando el peso que cargamos y nuestros sentimientos.

We weigh ourselves down with so many obstacles we can't even buy a goldfish bowl.