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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.

    Tired   World   Weight  
    Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.210, Penguin
  • I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.

    Hands   Two   World  
    Song: Wake Me Up, Album: True, 2013
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Acting   World   Weight  
    Source: www.songfacts.com
  • 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.

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

    Wind   Desert   World  
    Song: The Golden Age, Album: Sea Change, 2002
  • 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.

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

    Two   Trying   Together  
  • 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.

    Crush   Weed   Struggle  
  • 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.

    Block   Fall   Names  
    Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.109, Booklassic
  • 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.

    Plato   Eye   Vision  
    Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.123, Virginia Woolf
  • 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.

    Heart   Men   Evil  
    Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”
  • 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.

    Hate   Men   Laughing  
    Jean Genet (1994). “The Blacks: A Clown Show”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

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

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

    World   Weight   Earth  
    Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.46, Faber & Faber
  • Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

    Song: You Are Loved, Album: Awake, 2006
  • 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.

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