Emotional Weight Quotes

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

A heart's a heavy burden.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

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

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

sorrow is easier than guilt.

He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet, come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea, to the eternal surf, to Time! Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone, we shall always be you and I alone on earth, to start our life!

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.

Things you believe are baggage in your life.

It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...

his burden didn't feel any lighter. but he felt strong enough to carry it

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

Our love is our burden.

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.