I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I’m tired, inevitably. But it’s more than that. I’m hollowed out. I’m tetchy and irritable, constantly feeling like prey, believing that everything is urgent and that I can never do enough. And my house—my beloved home—has suffered a kind of entropy in which everything has slowly collapsed and broken and worn out, with detritus collecting on every surface and corner, and I have been helpless in the face of it.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
“I'm tired of being a dinosaur. Let's be meteors.”
“I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.”
Source: Arrow's Flight
“I'm tired of being in a room filled with air.”
“I'm tired of being inside my head. I want to live out here, with you.”
Source: Mounting the Whale
“I'm tired of being tired and not being able to sleep.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“I'm tired of being weak. Of depending on others to defend me.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“I'm tired of being your scratching post," he growled. "From now on, sharpen your claws on someone else." - Bumblestripe”
Source: The Last Hope
“I’m tired of bodies.
I need to touch souls.”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“I'm tired of "come and go," but that's got to come and go.”
Source: Can I Tell You Something?
“I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it.”
Source: None of This Is Serious
“I'm tired of drinking dirty water.”
“I'm tired of everyone
And that includes myself”
Source: Steven Wilson: To The Bone
“I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy.
I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.”
“I'm tired of feeling like I should be grateful when popular culture deigns to acknowledge the experiences of people who are not white, middle class or wealthy, and heterosexual.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“I’m tired of having faith things will work out, only for any hope I have to be violently crushed.”
Source: Ace of Spades
“I'm tired of hearing so many lies, please someone would invent a chipset installed on my ear that would block lies!”
“I'm tired of hurting from the people who leave me. I'm tired of getting comfortable with others. I tell you everything and you leave. It's like you're take what is good in me and all that is left in me is an empty shitty feeling.”
“I'm tired of it. I'm sick of picking up the pieces and marching bravely onward. I want things to work out just once.”
Source: More Tales of the City
“I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.”
“I'm tired of living in hatred and resentment. I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself. No, I'm not blaming you for this. Come to think of it, you may be such a victim. You probably don't know how to love yourself.
Am I wrong about that?”
Source: 1Q84
“I'm tired of living in the dark." Tired of feeling like I was running when I'd done nothing wrong.
That half smile on Arden's face grew into a full one. "Then maybe it's time to step into the light.”
Source: Broken Harbor
“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”
Source: 1Q84
“I’m tired of living without really living.”
Source: Five Feet Apart
“I’m tired of making the same mistakes over and over just because of some subconscious fears or desires or whatever. I want to get back to my real life. I want to dream my own dreams again.”
Source: Dreck
“I'm tired of memories, now I need you.”
Source: Letters to Mira!
“I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…”
Source: The Summer of Firsts and Lasts
“I'm tired of retracing my own footsteps for a hint of who I used to be, it's undignified.”
Source: The Ecliptic
“I’m tired of sitting. I’m tired of watching everyone else work. I can set my own limits, Amelia. Let me do as I wish.”
“No.” Incredulously Amelia watched as Win picked up a broom from the corner. “Win, put that down and stop being silly!” Annoyance whipped through her. “You’re not going to help anyone by expending all your reserves on menial tasks.”
“I can do it.” Win gripped the broom handle with both hands as if she sensed Amelia was on the verge of wrenching it away from her. “I won’t overtax myself.”
“Put down the broom.”
“Leave me alone,” Win cried. “Go dust something!”
“Win, if you don’t—” Amelia’s attention was diverted as she saw her sister’s gaze fly to the kitchen threshold.
Merripen stood there, his broad shoulders filling the doorway. Although it was early morning, he was already dusty and perspiring, his shirt clinging to the powerful contours of his chest and waist. He wore an expression they knew well—the implacable one that meant you could move a mountain with a teaspoon sooner than change his mind about something.
Approaching Win, he extended a broad hand in a wordless demand. They were both motionless. But even in their stubborn opposition, Amelia saw a singular connection, as if they were locked in an eternal stalemate from which neither wanted to break free.
Win gave in with a helpless scowl. “I have nothing to do.” It was rare for her to sound so peevish. “I’m sick of sitting and reading and staring out the window. I want to be useful. I want…” Her voice trailed away as she saw Merripen’s stern face. “Fine, then. Take it!” She tossed the broom at him, and he caught it reflexively. “I’ll just find a corner somewhere and quietly go mad. I’ll—”
“Come with me,” Merripen interrupted calmly. Setting the broom aside, he left the room.
Win exchanged a perplexed glance with Amelia, her vehemence fading. “What is he doing?”
“I have no idea.”
The sisters followed him down a hallway to the dining room, which was spattered with rectangles of light from the tall multipaned windows that lined one wall. A scarred table ran down the center of the room, every available inch covered with dusty piles of china … towers of cups and saucers, plates of assorted sizes sandwiched together, bowls wrapped in tattered scraps of gray linen. There were at least three different patterns all jumbled together. “It needs to be sorted,” Merripen said, gently nudging Win toward the table. “Many pieces are chipped. They must be separated from the rest.”
It was the perfect task for Win, enough to keep her busy but not so strenuous that it would exhaust her. Filled with gratitude, Amelia watched as her sister picked up a teacup and held it upside down. The husk of a tiny dead spider dropped to the floor.
“What a mess,” Win said, beaming. “I’ll have to wash it, too, I suppose.”
“If you’d like Poppy to help—” Amelia began.
“Don’t you dare send for Poppy,” Win said. “This is my project, and I won’t share it.” Sitting at a chair that had been placed beside the table, she began to unwrap pieces of china.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“I'm tired of their plastic pony show.”
Source: 29 Dimes: A Love Story
“I'm tired of this Earth,these people. I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives”
“I'm tired of trying to be important to the shallow,
I'm tired of trying to make sense to the senseless.
Adjusting to prehistoric habits of a dualistic world,
The mind loses touch with its magical magnificence.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“I'm tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don't want to change!”
“I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.”
Source: A Total Waste of Makeup
“I'm tired of you, chaos
of the living world--”
Source: The Wild Iris
“I’m tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The war is killing you.”
Source: Half Lost
“I’m tired,” she whispered, angrily wiping at the tears that kept coming. “So damn tired of fighting this. Fighting you. Fighting us.” Her voice broke. “Tired of not being held by you. Tired of not trusting you. Tired of being strong all the time.”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“I’m tired. The conductor has given me a pass. Maybe she saw into me,
that I’m headed to a hotel room alone, to a wedding alone,
that I stop myself from speaking more often than not. It’s hard to say
that I used to love someone, that now I might love someone else,
because I’m a coward.”
“I'm told girls dream of being wives, but wifedom seems an awful lot like defeat dressed up as victory. We're celebrated for marrying, but after that we must cede all territory and answer to a new authority like a vanquished nation.
[Marian Graves]”
Source: Great Circle
“I'm too angry to speak, or I would ask her how she could call those guys kids. They're bigger than most teachers. Their coaches buy them alcohol. Some of them have beards. How come guys like Gavin are treated like men most of the time, but when they fuck up, they're just kids?”
Source: The Champions
“I’m too big of a fan of sin and debauchery to be a Christian.”
Source: Inappropriate
“I'm too busy duck farming to watch many movies, so I don't know: Is it ScarFace, or is it ScarfAce? Either way, I am a knitting gangster.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“I’m too busy’ is another way of saying, ‘It’s not a priority.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“I'm too busy to work!”
“I'm too heartbroken to shed tears.”
Source: The Only Girl in the World
“I'm too hot to handle; poor bitch needs to be treated for burns!”
“i’m too in love with my life
to be spilling all over the floor
for the next man
who gives me butterflies
when i could look in the mirror
and take my own breath away”
Source: Home Body
“I'm too intelligent to be a good painter; to be a good painter you've got to be a bit stupid - with the exception of Velázquez who is a genius.”
“I'm too intense. I feel too much. And when I experience certain sensations, I act. Even if the situation is one I should probably walk away from. But you know what?" She was feeling a little better. "I'm never going to walk away, not from any of it. I can't. I am what I am. I'm intense, just as my fiance said. I feel everything around me, and I'm glad about that. I can't imagine life without the depth, without the magic that accompanies the pain.”
Source: A Child's Wish