“The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.”
Hilary Mantel
A Place of Greater Safety
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world.”
Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees
“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“There is a constant amount of weight in the world. If one person loses weight, another must gain it. If somebody dies, an appropriate number of babies are born. Do not stand too close to a person who is losing weight. That fat is just looming, looking for a person to inhabit.”
Robin Helm
“You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you’ll see the world in a different way.”
Helon Habila
Oil on Water
“Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.”
Josh Groban