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Quotes About Baggage

That little baggage hath witchcraft in her.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
Semplicità è fare il viaggio di questa vita con solo il bagaglio necessario.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.
~ Tim O'Brien
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing—these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight.
~ Tim O'Brien
They all carried ghosts.
~ Tim O'Brien
You can find God, make as much money as God or be as good-looking as God, and you'll still need to figure out a way to pack the emotional baggage you were handed when you were a kid.
~ Kim Severson
Empecé a seguir - una gota entre la corriente - el rumbo de la masa humana que, cargada de maletas, se volcaba en la salida. Mi equipaje era un maletón muy pesado - porque estaba casi lleno de libros - y lo llevaba yo misma con toda la fuerza de mi juventud y de mi ansiosa expectación.
~ Carmen Laforet
It's about picking which baggage is worth carrying with you later, when you go into the real world, where people don't want to hear about body parts on the roads.
~ Caroline Burau
Hamej, merrini këto valixhe. Të rënda? Janë mbushur me pritje...
~ Ismail Kadare
Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.
~ J.R. Ward
we are every age we have ever been at each moment in our lives. We carry it all with us like luggage.
~ J.R. Ward
Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
~ Tahir Shah
Hun skulle til å løfte kofferten ut av bagasjerommet, da hun skvatt til av en kjent stemme. Det ser ut som om du trenger hjelp med den der. En kvinne tar gjerne med seg alt bortsett fra kjøkkenbenken.
~ Tamara McKinley
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.
~ William Congreve
Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
tell you, the older you get, the more baggage you have to carry, and the less you're able to lift it.
~ Nelson DeMille
the older you get, the more baggage you have to carry, and the less you're able to lift it.
~ Nelson DeMille
People her age had some baggage; people my age have whole warehousesful of steamer trunks.
~ Nelson DeMille
she'd always believed that she didn't belong. It was, she realized, an ugly bit of baggage that she'd carried here from her youth, and she'd been so damned busy hanging on to it that she'd failed to notice that the bags were empty.
~ Kristin Hannah
He pulled back and slowly got to his feet. We've all been carrying this baggage for too long. Some of us have tried to go on. He looked at her. And some of us have refused to. But all of us are hurting. I'm your father. She's your mother - whatever she's done or hasn't done, or said or hasn't said - she a part of you and you're a part of her. Don't you see that you can't be whole without her?
~ Kristin Hannah