Quotes About Weighing Down

#1. The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. ... they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

Thomas Mann

#2. How do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?

Katherine Hannigan

#3. The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.

Sigmund Freud

#4. The sad fact is that language and logic cut off from reality have a far greater power than the language and logic of reality - with all that extraneous matter weighing down like a rock on any actions we take. In

Haruki Murakami

#5. But a whole bottle was what made me feel dead inside. And it worked, all the days stress was gone and I was able to live without the gigantic knot in my stomach. Without the boulders weighing down my shoulders.

Holly Hood

#6. Ripe strawberries hung from the little plants, row after row. They gleamed like baubles, bright and red among the leaves, weighing down their stalks.

Odo Hirsch

#7. Profound silence would brood over the valley, even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness. There can be no other place in the world where man feels himself so alone, so isolated, so completely ignored by nature, so incapable of entering into communion with her

David Oliver Relin

#8. After all, at almost forty-three-years old, his brother

Trudy J. Smith

#9. Being on her own had never been a burden. Instead of weighing her down, it buoyed her up; when she was alone, she was lighter. When she was by herself, she felt untethered and free.

Jennifer E. Smith

#10. like a demonic bat out of Hell.

Susan Ee

#11. It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine.

David Bowick

#12. Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

Walter Dean Myers

#13. I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down ... I ghosted between islands of anxiety ... a fatigue that dulled my zest, decanted it. Sorrow felt like a marble coat I couldn't shed.

Diane Ackerman

#14. My heart beats so hard, I feel like I have an earthquake inside of me. It's weighing me down and my hands shake with the need of safety and comfort.

Karen Quan

#15. Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Joe Klein

#16. Stop complaining, Start Appreciating

Jeekeshen Chinnappen

#17. I realized that sometimes we have to step outside the walls and fight. Sometimes the armor we thought was protecting us was actually weighing us down.

Kami Garcia

#18. If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

George Foreman

#19. That's when it occurs to me that maybe the rocks are weighing him down so he doesn't rise into the air.

Jandy Nelson

#20. Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Robertson Davies

#21. I could not put your new novel down. At 950 pages and weighing in at over ten lbs. I couldn't even pick the goddamned thing up!

Fred Barnett

#22. Just like children, he and the greatwoman Grainger longed, and especially demanded even, that something should happen, or again Parkhearst would cry, "A reward, I must have a reward. A reward for life just as I have lived it.

James Purdy

#23. You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

Sally Field

#24. It takes no talent to be sad. And you know how talented I am.

Damien D'Enfer

#25. Limitations only go so far.

Robert M. Hensel

#26. Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.

Rush Limbaugh

#27. Stop looking for flaws, and kindness come much more easily.

Deepak Chopra

#28. Take back your rib, Eve cries.
I didn't want it. I never did. It is weighing me down.

Salma Deera

#29. Sometimes feeling overwhelmed is part of what it means to be a Christian. You can't bear somebody else's burden unless you are taking something of their load and it's weighing you down a little bit.

Kevin DeYoung

#30. Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

Mary McCormack

#31. I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

Helen Oyeyemi

#32. Music eliminates my gravity. When I'm singing, I'm a ravenous pterodactyl. I'm alive and free and hungry, and I know who I am. But the flood is coming; it's weighing me down, making me prisoner to my loneliness and pain.
-character Joanna (Broken)

J. Matthew Nespoli

#33. Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines.

Jules Verne

#34. Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness!

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#35. I love to keep busy. But I never forget it's the countdown that made it all possible.

Casey Kasem

#36. The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow

Dian Fossey

#37. Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

Gareth Gates

#38. You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with, so be brave enough to let go those who keep weighing you down.

Ziad K. Abdelnour