It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.
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.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.
I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.
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.
It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.
I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.
The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.
All I've ever done is try to entertain my way through a life that often has a huge amount of heaviness in it.
Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.
Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering
Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.
We tried our best for so long to make the heaviest record we could make.
We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
The important thing is to be drunk.
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge the sun seemed to move from a cheerful daytime yellow to an early-evening gold; painful how the gold light hit the riverbanks, rich and sorrowful, drawing from Amy some longing, a craving for joy.
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.
My heaviness comes from the heights.
I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.
Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.
