Best stones & heavy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.”

Next White Half Seeing Sea Middle Building Stones Sight Glasses Wave Heavy London Boat Dirty Score Concrete Flood Steel Bricks Spit Rowing Slate Foam Submerged Spires Asphalt

Book:Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

Source: Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

“If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.”

Ifs Conscience Stones Heavy

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The men would help dig agricultural ditches because they were superb farmers. That was very heavy lifting work. But then they just preened themselves, and put bird-of-paradise plumes [in their hair], and smoked dope.”

Men War Helping Age He Man Hair Bird Stones Heavy Paradise Farmers Lifting Dominance Dope Superb Simplification Stone Age Heavy Lifting

Author:Peter Matthiessen

“Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough”

Enough Moments Use Wish Forget Enemy Becoming Mouths Stones Crisis Mere Heavy Rational Going Away Caves Apes Pretense Civilisation Pretension Primates

Author:Orson Scott Card

“If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.”

Ifs Doe Can Do Stones Heavy Lifts

Author:Lucretius

“Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.”

Men Turns Movement He Man Fine Losing Stones Heavy Receptionists

Author:James Wolcott

“You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy.”

Ifs Way Certain Records Stones Heavy Similarity

Author:John Lennon

“It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone.”

Ends Hard Moving Mountain Stones Sight Distance Heavy Veins Arcs Deep Inside

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!”

Helping Silence Stones Heavy

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.”

Turns Secret Stones Heavy Fossils

Author:Delphine de Vigan

“I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.”

“I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.”

Knows Should Heart Said Done Stones Should Have Heavy

Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

“They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")”

People Needs Eye Earth Fall Sound Darkness Sun Tomorrow Stones Heavy Autumn Far Away Fog Curtains

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”

Fool Stones Heavy Sand Wrath

Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow.”

“Well, what? Sophie-" "I hit her on the head with a mirror," Sophie said hopelessly. "One of those silver-backed ones, so it was quite heavy. She went down just like a stone, miss. So I...I tied her to the bed and I came looking for you.”

Wells Said Missing Bed Stones Mirrors Heavy Silver Tied Sophie

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain”

Pain Wind Source Weapons Rain Stones Roots Calm Heavy Warm Storm Dry Buried Tempest

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.”

Heart Has Beens Lost Felt Communication Stones Misery Casts Heavy

Book:The Rainbow

Source: The Rainbow

“There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?”

Knows Should Said Would Be Beautiful Chance Effort Easier Determination Stones Wake Up Heavy Love Someone Lifting Loving You Loving Someone Effortless

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”

Men Dies Three Waiting Sound Silence Cutting Flower Rivers Stones Thirds Patient Heavy Wide Appropriate Autumn Smooth Wrapping Name Of The Wind

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life’s buried here, Heap earth upon it.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.”

World Looks Heart Whole My Heart Stones Weight Heavy Emptiness Breasts

Author:Katherine Paterson

“Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it lodged in you. Sometimes I feel like I have swallowed a pile of stones. Grief makes me heavy. It makes me slow. Even on days when I laugh a lot, or dance, or finish a project, or meet a deadline, or celebrate, or make love, it is there. Lodged deep inside of me.”

Feels Stills Sometimes Grief Laughing Goes On Projects Stones Heavy Celebrate Over You Making Love Get Over Deadline Deep Inside Time Passes

Book:Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

Source: Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

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