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

topic: Warrior, Challenges, World, Weight Of The World

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

topic: Pain, Work Out, Challenges, Weight Of The World

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

- Avicii

source: Song: Wake Me Up, Album: True, 2013

topic: Hands, Two, World, Weight Of The World, Two Hands

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

- Alexander Gordon Smith

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

topic: World, Weight, Earth, Weight Of The World

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

source: Source: www.songfacts.com

topic: Acting, World, Weight, Weight Of The World, Acting Out

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

topic: Heart, Play, People, Weight Of The World, Insurmountable

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

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

topic: Tired, World, Weight, Weight Of The World

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

- Josh Groban

source: Song: You Are Loved, Album: Awake, 2006

topic: Giving Up, World, Weight Of The World

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

topic: Plato, Eye, Vision, Weight Of The World

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

topic: Regret, Responsibility, Tears, Weight Of The World

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

- Allen Ginsberg

topic: Solitude, Literature, World, Dissatisfaction, Weight Of The World

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

- Vera Nazarian

topic: Two, Trying, Together, Weight Of The World

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

- Beck

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

topic: Wind, Desert, World, Drifting, Weight Of The World

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

source: Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

topic: Heart, Men, Evil, Weight Of The World, Lust And Greed

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

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

topic: Block, Fall, Names, Weight Of The World, Hatchet

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

topic: Hate, Men, Laughing, Weight Of The World

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

topic: Crush, Weed, Struggle, Weight Of The World

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

topic: Mother, Smell, Giving, Weight Of The World