Heavy Baggage Quotes

#1. Life was an enormous rucksack so impossibly heavy that, even though it meant losing everything, it was infinitely easier to leave all baggage here on the roadside and walk into the blackness.

Zadie Smith

#2. You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

Hsu Yun

#3. I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey ...

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

Mitchell Burgess

#5. I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

Park Chan-wook

#6. The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

John Hannah

#7. Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

Tallulah Bankhead

#8. Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don't let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down.

Maddy Malhotra

#9. America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

George W. Bush

#10. We carry our past sorrows and anger and they become a kind of baggage that makes life heavy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Stephen Hawking

#12. Look around! People have faces with no smiles, as if they are carrying heavy baggage. Stop them! Give them a SMILE and see them Light up.-RVM #Inspiration #stayinspired

R.v.m.

#13. Feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: You hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear makeup, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humor, you don't use deodorant.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. Maybe it's just easier to hold onto resentment and bitterness.But when you hold onto them, you're imprisoning yourself, not the other person. Not forgiving is pretty heavy baggage to carry around.

Cathy Bryant

#16. In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.

Nikki Sixx

#17. When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

Confucius

#18. The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

Roald Dahl

#19. Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding

Townes Van Zandt

#20. hell on earth is waking up with expectations every morning and going to sleep disappointed in yourself every night!

Kenny Werner

#21. I don't like heavy baggage." The driver laughed. "Who does? But before you know it, you're surrounded by it. That's life. C'est la vie." And again, he laughed happily.

Haruki Murakami

#22. We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Joseph Joubert

#23. Baggage. We all had it. Mine was starting to get pretty heavy.

Trina M. Lee