I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I don’t want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn’t quite pleasing.”
“I don’t want enlightenment. I want to enjoy this life. There is a reason why God gifted us with a mind and five senses. We wouldn’t be having them if our goal was to undermine their existence. We are here to feel. Emotions, pleasure and pain of all sorts. Becoming emotionally numb is, therefore, not our purpose. It certainly can never be!”
Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“I don't want equal rights with the white man; if I did, I'd be a thief and a murderer.”
“I don't want eternal life. I want a little joy, a large amount of pleasure, and a swift death once I lose the appetite for either.”
Source: Wolf in Shadow
“I don't want everybody to understand me, to get me. How boring would that be? But, I do want those special few to absolutely understand who I am.”
“I don't want everybody to vote... As a matter of fact, our leverage in the election quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
“I don’t want fame, money, or duty. I want to close my eyes and see your loving beauty.”
“I don't want fear so strong that I am incapacitated. But there is fear that comes from being attentive enough that you realize there is life greater than you, life that was here before you and will be after.”
Source: The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard
“I don’t want fine. Fine isn’t enough. Isn’t not about the open fire or whatever other clichés you can conjure up, but yes, I want a connection. I want you to care as much as I care. I want you to need it and want it and mean it. I want it to matter.”
Source: Boyfriend Material
“I don’t want forever. I never did… I just want right now.”
Source: Witness to Passion
“I don't want freedom gram by gram, grain by grain.
I have to break this steel chain with my teeth!
I don't want freedom as a drug, as a medicine,
I want it as the sun, as the earth, as the heavens!
Step, step aside, you invader!
I am the loud voice of this land!
I don't need a puny spring,
I am thirsting for oceans!”
“I don't want haphazard love.
I want intentional love.”
Source: Speaking with the Heart: Transforming Your Relationship and Communication with Compassion and Connection
“I don’t want happiness, I want ecstasy.”
“I don't want her. I want you."
"I didn't see you making any effort to push her away." My voice cracked, broke. I couldn't stop the painful mental replay of the Bloomingdale scene. It was on a permanent loop in my mind.
"She had a gun in her pocket," Jack said.
"Are you sure that wasn't you?”
Source: 'Til Heist Do Us Part
“I don't want her to see how I had hoped to pity her -- how I had thought, maybe, I was meant to.”
“I don’t want her to see the man I’ve become. I don’t want to fall for her all over again. It took decades for the pain of her absence to dull.
Here my wife’s safe. And so is my heart.”
Source: The Queen of Traitors
“I don’t want him to ask me how I feel about it, so I smile even wider and try to convince him I’m perfectly fine.
Because I am. Or I will be. Once it all sinks in.”
Source: All Your Perfects
“I don't want him to hurt like I'm hurting. I don't want him to miss me like I'll miss him. I don't want him to be falling for me like I've been falling for him.”
Source: Maybe Someday
“I don't want him to think I'm crazy, because I'm not. Desperate is what I am. Quietly desperate and insatiably curious.”
“I don't want him whipping out his imperial cock for me. Certainly not when he doesn't bother to whip it out for his own folk.”
Source: When the Moon Hatched
“I don’t want Humans to work for me, I just want them to be free.”
“I don’t want it to be fine. Fine comes from the Latin finis, which means end. This feels a lot more like a beginning.”
Source: Aru Shah and the City of Gold
“I don't want it to be like that with Peter. The farawayness of old feelings, like even when you try with all your might, you can barely make out his face when you close your eyes. No matter what, I always want to remember his face.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I don’t want it to end. I don’t want to watch doves fall from the trees and blueberries burst into flame.”
Source: Ezekiel in the Snow
“I don't want it to have happened. I want it to not have happened, but if you are grateful for your life, which I think is a positive thing to do, not everybody is--and I am not always--but it's the most positive thing to do, then you have to be grateful for all of it.
You can't pick and choose what you're grateful for.
So, what do you get from loss? You get awareness of other people's loss, which allows you to connect with that other person, which allows you to love more deeply and to understand what it's like to be a human being, if it's true that all humans suffer.”
“I don't want just a night or a week or a month with you. I want you all the time. I like you better than calculus, and math is the only thing that unites the universe.”
Source: The Kiss Quotient
“I don’t want kids.”
“Why?”
“My family has a genetic defect and I don’t want to pass it on.”
“What kind of defect?”
“We’re assholes.”
Source: Damaged and the Knight
“I don’t want know you because if I know you, I might like you”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
“I don't want love torn, mended, in half. It took me so long to find this peace, I think I deserve something whole, intense, indestructible. Let's end this please, don't call me or come to my house to look for me. Am glad all this happened . nothing truly good can ever come from such people. am at peace and happy please stick to your life and stay away from me. you are free to continue like the rest of the irresponsible, self hating you call friends. fly in as many unprofitable relationships as you want. just stay away and stop acting relevant I don't even know what you aim to achieve . Maybe u think it hurts me but it doesn't RATHER MAKES ME STRONG. u are a waste of ones precious time. it's over and I've decided what and who is good for me and who am content with. block me”
Source: ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS: Avoid The Top 3 Mistakes That Keep Even Highly Ambitious Professionals & Entrepreneurs Procrastinating...Feeling Stuck Year After Year...& Unable To Breakthrough!
“I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?”
Source: Uprooted
“I don’t want multiple partners that only feed my ego or serve my meaningless chase for pleasure. I want only one true sensual woman.”
“I don’t want my kids to hold an anemic love in their hands, to feel lost or victimized in a big, scary world. I want them to experience their power that resides in their little bodies and expresses itself in quiet, small words to defy hate and violence.”
Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First
“I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined by what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“I don't want my life to not be the way I expected.
I may not be scared of crowds. Or the dark. Or small spaces. But I am afraid.
I am afraid of responsibility; I am afraid of not living up to expectations, of the changing future, of growing up, not knowing, sex, relationships, hardship, secrets, grades, judgement, falling short, loneliness, change, confusion, arguments, curiosity, love, hate, losing, pressure, differences, honesty, lies.
I am afraid of me.
Yet, despite this, I know I am brave. I know I am brave because I've accepted my invisible fears and haven't let them overcome me.
I want you to know that you're brave because you know your fears. You're brave because you introduced yourself. You're brave because you said 'No, I don't understand.' You're brave because you are here.”
Source: Dear My Blank: Secret Letters Never Sent
“I don't want my name to just become a popular brand. I want my name to become a self-sustaining institution.”
“I don't want my name written in gold, all I want is my ideas to be realized in your heart. And the gist of my ideas is simple – expansion.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“I don't want my only option to be running,' I said.
'Running,' Amren cut in, 'kept you alive today.'
I ignored her. 'I want to know how to fight my way out. I don't want to have to wait on anyone to rescue me.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I don’t want my poems to mean one thing.
I want them to mean many different things to many different people.
Freedom of interpretation.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“I don't want only one night. I want all nights. I want all of you, FOREVER.”
“I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.”
“I don't want other people to mention my "self". Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my "self" would it?”
“I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I don't want pain. I don't want to be a dancer, my feet in the air, my head a faceless oblong of white cloth. I don't want to be a doll hung up on the Wall, I don't want to be a wingless angel. I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others. They can do what they like with me. I am abject.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale
“I don’t want people’s beliefs and opinions about God. I want true knowledge of the true God. We all want the real thing though, don’t we? Deep down, we all crave the Absolute Truth, not just some nice, liberal idea that we think might make the world a better place. I don’t want to talk to my own unconscious, or my own subjective beliefs, then call it “God” … because it makes me feel good. I want to actually talk to God. I want the answers to all the big questions. I want to know what it’s really all about. What am I supposed to do with my life? How am I supposed to live? What’s the right thing to do? What’s the meaning of life? What’s the purpose of each and every one of us? What are the big explanations for everything? Is there a way to get all the way through to God, the true God?”
Source: The Vampire Path to God!: My Desperate Plan to Contact God
“I don't want people to be worried about me. There's nothing to worry about. I don't want people to try and understand why I'm the way I am, because I should be the first person to understand that.”
Source: Solitaire
“I don't want people to be worried about me. There's nothing to worry about. I don't want people to try and understand why I'm the way I am, because I should be the first person to understand that. And I don't understand yet. I don't want people to interfere. I don't want people in my head, picking out this and that, permanently picking up the broken pieces of me.
If that's what friends do, then I don't want any.”
Source: Solitaire
“I don’t want people to fall in love with my smile, my face or my body. I am waiting for somebody to love the mess I can be and fall in love with my emotional scars.”
“I don't want people to like me. I want them to like my music, because I won't be there forever but my music will.”