Daniel Handler Quotes

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

an albatross around my neck.

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.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

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.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

I will not get very far with this attitude.

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

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

I'm 69 kilos; I don't have a burden on my back.

Obstruction takes time.

A lot of people don't see the vision, the dream you have. They're shortcutting you. I had to get them out of the picture. Totally.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down." -Ganner Rhysode

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

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.

Feels like a midget is hanging from my necklace

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.