Weighs You Down Quotes

#1. You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

#2. But tie yourself up with a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with regret.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight

Niccolo Machiavelli

#4. Feed yourself with the food of wisdom.
Wisdom is recognised by joy and peace.
When you allow your ways to be light you go high.
When your path supports heaviness it weighs you down.

Raphael Zernoff

#5. Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift - the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

Billy Graham

#6. The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking," as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.

Steve Maraboli

#7. Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

Horace

#8. Nonetheless the memory of you stayed with me, and I had no doubt whatever whom I ought to cling to, though I knew that I was not yet capable of clinging, because the perishable body weighs down the soul, and its earthly habitation oppresses a mind teeming with thoughts.

Augustine Of Hippo

#9. how dismal it is to have no one to go to in the morning to share one's griefs and joys; how hateful when something weighs on you and there's nowhere to lay it down. You know to what I refer. I often tell to my pianoforte what I want to tell to you.

Frederic Chopin

#10. The moment weighs down on me, threatening to unstitch my seams and expose me to the world.

Rebecca Berto

#11. Solitude weighs me down. Company does too.

Jorge Luis Borges

#12. I don't always feel what I know I should feel.
My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly
Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

Alberto Caeiro

#13. God weighs souls on a pair of scales. In one of the dishes is the soul, and in the other, the tears of those who weep for it. If nobody cries, the soul goes straight down to hell. If there are enough tears and they are sufficiently heartfelt, it rises up to heaven.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

#14. I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

Cherie Lunghi

#15. At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It's the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. The despairing are always being urged to abstain from selfishness, to think of others first. This seems unfair. Why load them with responsibility for the welfare of others, when their own already weighs them down?

Julian Barnes

#17. Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

Haruki Murakami

#18. The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have ... excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.

Anais Nin

#19. The pearl only weighs the oyster down.

Marty Rubin

#20. To soar, we must leave anything that weighs us down ...

Saru Singhal

#21. The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

Horace

#22. Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#23. There is an empty space in my heart. It weighs me down and each step I take through life gets harder and harder, I realize now that I am no longer the man she once knew, but a bitter and hollow replica of him, unworthy of her love.

Inger Iversen

#24. I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry.

Aditi

#25. Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

Alfred Jarry

#26. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

David Levithan

#27. The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#28. Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.

Francois Fenelon

#29. An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up. - Proverbs 12:25

Sue Birdseye

#30. To love,
and all the heartache that weighs it down.

To love,
and all the heartbeats that lift it up.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#31. A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

Lloyd Alexander

#32. The past is the anchor that weighs us down.

Don Trowden

#33. A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house up to her bedroom, and down into a deep, dark hole.

Mitch Albom

#34. What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.

Joyce Meyer

#35. Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#36. Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Solomon