I Quotes
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“I am alone as the pearl is alone in its shell. I have withdrawn into myself, but the sea – life hits me and forces me to open. It opens my womb, takes out my round pearl – soul, and strings it on a necklace. I cannot breathe under its weight. It holds all my dear, lost pearls...”
“I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.”
“I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.”
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”
Source: Nausea
“I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action. And I want, in those silent, somehow faltering times, to be with someone who knows, or else alone. I want to reflect everything about you, and I never want to be too blind or too ancient to keep your profound wavering image with me. I want to unfold. I don't want to be folded anywhere, because there, where I'm folded, I am a lie.”
“I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.”
Source: Shiver
“I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.”
Source: Nausea
“I am alone. My heart beats only for myself. The strikers mean nothing to me. I have nothing in common with the mob, nor with individuals. I am a cold person. In the war I did not feel I was part of my company. We all lay in the same mud and waited for the same death. But I could think only about my own life and death. I would step over corpses and it oftened saddened me that I could feel no pain.”
Source: Hotel Savoy
“I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side.”
Source: Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
“I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world”
Source: Early Writings
“I am alone," said Orlando, aloud since there was no one to hear.”
“I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.”
“I am alone this evening, and I am alone because of a cruel twist of fate, a phrase which here means that nothing has happened the way I thought it would. Once I was a content man, with a comfortable home, a successful career, a person I loved very much, and an extremely reliable typewriter, but all of those things have been taken away from me, and now the only trace I have of those happy days is the tattoo on my left ankle. As I sit in this very tiny room, printing these words with a very large pencil, I feel as if my whole life has been nothing but a dismal play, presented just for someone else’s amusement, and that the playwright who invented my cruel twist of fate is somewhere far above me, laughing and laughing at his creation.”
Source: The Hostile Hospital
“I am alone with the masses.”
“I am alone, as though I stood On the highest peak of the tired gray world,About me only swirling snow, Above me, endless space unfurled;With earth hidden and heaven hidden, And only my own spirit's prideTo keep me from the peace of those Who are not lonely, having died.”
Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale
“I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.”
“I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks. First in English. Then in Italian. And then - just to get the point across - in Sanskrit.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
“I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.”
“I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.”
Source: Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
“I am alone. There is no God where I am.”
Source: The Book of the Law
“I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.”
“I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.”
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
“I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.”
“I am already at an age and additionally in a state where I must always wash my feet thoroughly before bad, in the event of having to be removed by an ambulance in the Night.”
Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.”
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
“I am already experiencing something better than being a pop star and that's being a father. It's the best job in the world. A lot of work, but a lot of fun.”
“I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.”
Source: Eagle's Gift
“I am already inducted into the female boxing hall of fame and I don't know if the International Boxing Hall of Fame has any females in it. I don't know and if I don't, I'm ok with it. At this time in my life I understand that. I never want to say I'm the greatest fighter as a female.”
“I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.”
“I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.”
Source: Letters of the Wordsworth family from 1787 to 1855
“I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living properly. The numinous authority of form enjoys the prerogative of being able to tell me 'You must'.
It is the authority of a different life in this life. This authority touches on a subtle insufficiency within me that is older and freer than sin; it is my innermost not-yet. In my most conscious moment, I am affected by the absolute objection to my status quo: my change is the one thing that is necessary. If you do indeed subsequently change your life, what you are doing is no different from what you desire with your whole will as soon as you feel how a vertical tension that is valid for you unhinges your life.”
Source: Du mußt dein Leben ändern
“I am already nostalgic for what we have, even with you still here.”
Source: Sea of Strangers
“I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.”
Source: No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus
“I am already used to taking on the same sins. For a Fairy Tail Mage, the true sin is averting one's eyes... and no longer being able to believe in anyone!”
“I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.”
“I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.”
“I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.”
“I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.”
“I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.”
“I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.”
“I am also about trusting maggot instincts. If I get played or taken advantage of? So be it. That's a life lesson. I would rather have believed in someone and get hurt than live life with distrust. I always go into a relationship with trust.”
“I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.”
“I am also amazed with Messi, what he is doing is very good. He contributes alot of very good things for the team. He is an individualist, but he always plays for the team.He covers well at the back, is organized and finishes well with both feet. He is mischievous, and is a very intelligent player. He applies pressure just where the pressure is needed.”
“I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.”
Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba
“I am also an orphan. Once a couple had come to either adopt me or another girl, who was much more beautiful than me. Thank God, they did not adopt me. Otherwise, I would never have reached where I am today. This is just a small step to give back to the society what I got due to great destiny!”
Source: Tales from Venus
“I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.”
“I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.”