Encumbrance Quotes

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

an albatross around my neck.

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

I'd got hobbits on my hands hadn't I?

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.