Weight quotes
891 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside weight — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers."
"As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me."
"But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?"
"I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it."
"If you do extreme exercise to lose weight, you'll usually soon stop because you get injured or because it's simply too rigorous to do for a lifetime."
"Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing."
"If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological."
"I lift weights and I run, thats what I do."
"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find."
"Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise."
"The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length"
"It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that."
"I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time."
"There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in."
"You can lose your weight, but you can't lose your personality. And people's personalities don't change."
"I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience."
"Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say."
"The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn't like myself much."
"I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries."
"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
