Weight of the World Quotes

Life is lighter than a feather; duty is heavier than a mountain.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens.

Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

In his sensitive hands lay much of the world’s fate

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

I have to say that you don't really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.

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

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.