I Quotes
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“I don't know if it was the flu or something else weighing me down. Depression? No, I wasn't exactly depressed. At least, I didn't think so. It's not like I was crying all the time, but I wasn't smiling either. I couldn't stand being around happy people, but I couldn't stand sad people, either. I didn't fit anywhere–not with the living, not with the grieving.”
“i don't know if our nervous systems are
made for social media… to have so much noise
over our own inner voice trying to influence
who and how we should be…
but i'm learning to say things like…
“who and how i want to be can't be shaken
by what's outside of me. i need to like me…
and that's what i'm going to
let matter to me.”
“i don't know if our nervous systems were
made for social media… to have so much noise
over our own inner voice trying to influence
who and how we should be…
but i'm learning to say things like…
“who and how i want to be can't be shaken
by what's outside of me. i need to like me…
and that's what i'm going to
let matter to me.”
“I don't know if she knows that I know.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“I don't know if there is a "right" way to pray, but I often wonder if I pray for the right things.”
Source: You Have a Superpower: Mindi PI Meets Bailey
“I don’t know if these are last words or ones that I’ll remember.”
Source: Ricochet
“I don't know if they found that name in the heart of the man they believed me to be, or if they planted it there, like a wishing tree, to bloom and grow. Whatever the case, whether they discovered that peace or created it, the truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.”
Source: Shantaram
“I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.”
Source: Brother Odd
“I don’t know if this ever happened to you, if you’ve loved someone, loved who they are, then found out they’re not that person after all. It doesn’t just break your heart, does it? It breaks you. Then you’re not who you thought you were, either.”
Source: Heart-Shaped Bruise
“I don't know if this is what happens right before you die. Everything I have ever experienced is made crystalline. Nothing hurts any more. Hundreds upon thousands of moments glitter in unison, like snowflakes whose elaborate shapes are in full view. How is this possible, I can't say. My every pain and joy, all my deep-rooted sorrows and loves, shine, not as an amalgam but as a whole comprised of distinct singularities, glowing together as one giant nebula.”
Source: We Do Not Part
“I don’t know if time heals; but I know perspective does.”
“I don’t know if today will be my last day. But I do know that it can be the first day that I begin to respect life enough to act as if it were my last.”
“I don’t know if we’re in a love story or a story about love.”
Source: What If It's Us
“I don't know if what I'm seeing are worms, or where they come from, or what they might be if they're not worms, or whether I want them to be worms or not, or what I have to believe about this woman if they aren't worms, or about the world or human bodies or this disease if they are.”
Source: The Empathy Exams
“I don't know if you have any idea what a high school in Paris is like in this day and age in the posh neighborhoods—but quite honestly, the slummy banlieues of Marseille have nothing on ours. In fact it may even be worse here, because where you have money, you have drugs—and not just a little bit and not just one kind.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“I don‘t know if you noticed but I have been trying, too hard, to be myself since the day I lost you.”
Source: I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You
“I don't know if you're my true love, Donatella. All I know is that I want you to be.”
Source: Finale
“I don't know if you realize this, but there are some researchers — doctors — who are giving this kind of drug to volunteers, to see what the effects are, and they're doing it the proper scientific way, in clean white hospital rooms, away from trees and flowers and the wind, and they're surprised at how many of the experiments turn sour. They've never taken any sort of psychedelic themselves, needless to say. Their volunteers — they're called 'subjects,' of course — are given mescaline or LSD and they're all opened up to their surroundings, very sensitive to color and light and other people's emotions, and what are they given to react to? Metal bed-frames and plaster walls, and an occasional white coat carrying a clipboard. Sterility.”
Source: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
“I don't know if you realize this, but there are some researchers - doctors - who are giving this kind of drug to volunteers, to see what the effects are, and they're doing it the proper scientific way, in clean white hospital rooms, away from trees and flowers and the wind, and they're surprised at how many of the experiments turn sour. They've never taken any sort of psychedelic themselves, needless to say. Their volunteers - they're called 'subjects,' of course - are given mescaline or LSD and they're all opened up to their surroundings, very sensitive to color and light and other people's emotions, and what are they given to react to? Metal bed-frames and plaster walls, and an occasional white coat carrying a clipboard. Sterility. Most of them say afterward that they'll never do it again.”
Source: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning. If this gets any worse, I might have to go back to the doctor. It’s
getting that bad again.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I don’t know if you’ve ever thought about this before, but if death is beaten, so is everything else. And because God set His sights on beating death, we can build our lives on achieving anything.”
“I don't know if you've noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror.”
“I don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but I need to know." When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“I don't know' is often really 'I don't want to say.”
“I don't know is she loves me anymore, or if she hates me, or if she just don't care one way or the other, she ain't showing a thing to me since. Sooth, friendly, nothing. It's all I deserve after what I did to her.”
Source: Billy Dead
“I don't know' isn't failure but an invitation.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“I don’t know. It can’t be outfought, it can’t be outdone, it can’t be outrun. It’s just the way it is. There is no Justice, except the one that is paid for. In blood, or money. I don’t have money.”
Source: Part 1: Becoming You...
“I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?'
'Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.”
Source: Women
“I don't know. It's not just like it's a single moment...I was just grateful and sorry and thankful and swept up in a thousand emotions.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I don't know," Jason said with a shrug. "Maybe it's too late for me. Maybe my heart is already too far good."
With a smile she said softly, "It's never too late to be good.”
“I don't know...just a feeling, like in..." Xander thought for a moment. "Star Wars. You know, when Han Solo says, 'I've got a bad feeling about this'?”
Source: House of Dark Shadows
“I don't know Kitten," she said, zipping up her money belt, "but I'll tell you one thing--if it were a book, I wouldn't be able to put it down.”
Source: Born with Teeth
“I don’t know. Let me think. Do I want pie? Am I even hungry? Oh, this is a hard decision. Maybe I should call the DUH, YES, I LOVE PIE ASSOCIATION.”
Source: Lost in London
“I don’t know, man.” He reached into his inside pocket and pulled out a pack of cigarettes.
“Ew!” I recoiled. “You smoke?”
“Only when I drink,” he said, reaching for a lighter, “or when I’m seriously depressed.”
I snatched the pack away. “These will kill you, and you don’t want that.”
“Yeah?” he said sarcastically. “How should I get myself killed then?”
“You could hang out with me some more,” I suggested. “I attract homicidal maniacs like mosquitoes, baby.”
Source: Lust, Loathing and a Little Lip Gloss
“I don't know? Maybe because we had sex.”
Source: Take Me Now
“I don't know — maybe it is not for me to know. But in my most idle moments I still attempted. Before I succumb to this daunting task that is death, I would like to try — try even penniless. I will try to forge some will, to speed my own hamster wheel. To run with every fiber of my being. Maybe eventually it will spin so rapidly I finally fly off the hinge and break the glass and go somewhere.”
“I don't know, maybe it's not great progress compared to other people, but I'm happy with my progress. And you know what? Quite frankly, that's all that matters. If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?”
“I don't know', 'Maybe', 'Perhaps' - If you
have stopped using these phrases, you are imprisoned by your beliefs. You don't have beliefs. Beliefs have you.”
“I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.”
Source: NOS4A2
“I don't know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking”
Source: Ready Player One
“I don’t know,” Mom kept saying tearfully. “I don’t know, I just feel like it’s over.”
“Our marriage?” Dad had asked after a long pause.
“My life,” she’d told him. “I’m nothing but your wife. January’s mother. I’m nothing else, and I don’t think you can imagine how that feels. To be forty-two and feel like you’ve done everything you’re going to do.”
Source: Beach Read
“I don't know, Mom. Now that I'm about to graduate, I plan on being more spontaneous."
Mom opened her eyes and burst out laughing.
I said, "Got spontaneity on the calendar for next Tuesday.”
Source: The Memory Book
“I don't know much about kisses, but I can assure you that hers were no less fierce than a swarm of bullets tearing the air”
“I don’t know much about psychoanalysis, but I don’t believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do.”
Source: Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke
“I don't know much about the universe except that it's never steered me wrong because it's always directed me to you.”
Source: The Playlist
“I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“I don't know much,
but I do know this:
Heaven is full of music,
and God listens to my heartbeat
on his iPod. It reminds him
that we still got work to do.”
Source: Helium
“I don't know much fancy words. I think simple, I speak simple, I live simple.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“I don't know my place in the bigger scheme of things, but I do know I'm here on this earth for a reason, and I never make the mistake of thinking that what I do is trivial. I trust in myself. I am important.”
Source: Wilder
“I don’t know nobody that will tell you that they were unhappy trying to be great. Mistakes define us, son. Hell, boy, we all are made from our mistakes. When I talk to people, they never tell me that they regretted trying.” The saxophonist paused. “They will tell me that they wished that they had more time or that they had tried something that they were’re scared of.”
Excerpt From
Nothing Simple or Easy
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Source: Nothing Simple or Easy