Heaviness Quotes

• This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Bird, Teach

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Success, Creativity

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• You've been complaining, you've been depressed, you've been despondent. But take off those garments of heaviness and put back on your garments of praise. I didn't come when you thought I was going to come, but I'm going to be right on time.

  Paula White

  Complaining, Praise, Garments

  Source: culteducation.com

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• My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there since I'm a kid. Other people wake up in the morning, 'A new day! Ah, up and at 'em!' I wake up, the heaviness is waiting for me nice. Sometimes I even talk to it. I say [adopts cheerful voice] 'Hi, heaviness!' and the heaviness looks back at me, [in an ominous growl] 'Today you're gonna get it good. You'll be drinking early today.'

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Morning, Nice, Drinking

  "Rodney Dangerfield's It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime Of No Respect But Plenty Of Sex And Drugs" by Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. April 28, 2011.

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• The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

  Rob Bell

  Weight, Maintaining, Fairness

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• Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Cheerful, Disposition

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.275, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

  Milan Kundera

  Drama, Unbearable, Burden

  The Unbearable Lightness of Being pt. 3, ch. 10 (1984) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Nature, Tree, Earth

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Light, Burdens Of Life, Spirit

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.139

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• Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Remembrance, Gone

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, ..., and Edmond Malone, ..., with Mr. Malone's Various Readings ; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.91

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• The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.

  Karin Lowachee

  Needs, Patient, Breathe

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• Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.

  Ajahn Chah

  Thinking, Mind, Looks

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• She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dream, Sleep, Years

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Apr 20, 2013

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• In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Emotional

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• I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

  Joyce Meyer

  Depression, Believe, Sadness

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• you will I trust find heaviness may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

  Rachel

  Morning, Night, Joy

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• Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?

  Mary Oliver

  Flower, Humble, Garden

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Thinking, Color, Branches

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• Against ill chances men are ever merry,
  But heaviness foreruns the good event.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Luck, Events

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. 81

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• My heaviness comes from the heights.

  Antonio Porchia

  Height

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hurt, Comfort, Worthy

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• The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

  Leni Zumas

  Language, Carrie

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Art, Errors, Stupidity

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• That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy, but it does mean an awareness of influences that touch our lives, sometimes in ways that seem cruel and unfeeling, and sometimes in ways that open up a glory which can never be forgotten.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Heart, Way

  Robertson Davies (1999). “Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre”, Penguin Group USA

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• Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Humble, World

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Oct 16, 2011

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