Weight Of The World Quotes

• A responsible warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Warrior, Challenges, World

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• But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does.

  Darren Shan

  Pain, Work Out, Challenges

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• I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.

  Avicii

  Hands, Two, World

  Song: Wake Me Up, Album: True, 2013

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• Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  World, Weight, Earth

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

  Dan Mangan

  Acting, World, Weight

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• When you play from the heart,
  all of a sudden there's no gravity.
  You don't feel the weight of the world,
  of bills, of anything.
  That's why people love it.
  Your so-called insurmountable problems disappear,
  and instead of problems you get possibilities.

  Carlos Santana

  Heart, Play, People

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• I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Tired, World, Weight

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.210, Penguin

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• Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

  Josh Groban

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, World

  Song: You Are Loved, Album: Awake, 2006

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• The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Plato, Eye, Vision

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.123, Virginia Woolf

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• I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Regret, Responsibility, Tears

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• The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Solitude, Literature, World

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.31, University of Michigan Press

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• The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

  Vera Nazarian

  Two, Trying, Together

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• Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

  Beck

  Wind, Desert, World

  Song: The Golden Age, Album: Sea Change, 2002

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• But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
  Carrying the world's weight of the world's filth
  And the filth in the heart of Man--
  Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat
  than that of the Sun.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

  Virginia Woolf

  Block, Fall, Names

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.109, Booklassic

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• When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at the illusion. But my shoulders are very frail. I was unable to bear the weight of the world's condemnation. And I began to hate you when everything about you would have kindled my love and when love would have made men's contempt unbearable, and their contempt would have made my love unbearable. The fact is, I hate you.

  Jean Genet

  Hate, Men, Laughing

  Jean Genet (1994). “The Blacks: A Clown Show”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Crush, Weed, Struggle

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• My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Smell, Giving

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