I Quotes
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“I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.”
Source: The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic
“I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.”
“I no longer criticize anyone--not even myself. I only give out positive vibes.”
“I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.”
“I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.”
“I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.”
Source: Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World
“I no longer even need a window to follow the journey. I can narrate it to myself hour by hour, live it from memory, all of it - canyons, towns, the reflection of the clouds in the rivers. Memory has taken on wings and speed has become an inner quality. A pity.
No doubt it was better that this purely fornicatory and imaginary relationship, with her sexual voracity and her ankle bracelets, which we carried on all over the place - in the Badlands, in the Chelsea Hotel, in motels, in the sand, between the sheets - and which always meant immediate lovemaking in the minutes that followed, never satisfied, but just as sweet, and flexible and blonde, her eyes raised like a slavegirl's and her hand outstretched towards her sex, she free and servile, feminine and muscled, laughing and admiring, animal blood and metallic eyes - it was natural that this relationship should finish with a pathetic fellatio on a motel balcony, in the morning mist and a hypothetical child which no doubt was not mine and which I shall never see. I have even forgotten her name, but I have not forgotten the straw scent of her sex, nor the twenty-dollar bet on salt or snow, nor the sudden menstrual nosebleed I had one morning when I saw her arriving at my place in all her Californian splendour.”
Source: Cool memories
“I no longer fear honesty. I have learned that anything important accomplished through dishonest means eventually unravels. Facing unpleasant truths protects us from building on faulty foundations.”
Source: Master of the Phantom Isle
“I no longer fear the pain...I fear no release from this torture...knowing that I've hurt him and he can't forgive me...that he won't be able to make me his good girl again.”
Source: True Beginnings
“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself. I think Peeta was on to something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over, because there is something significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices our children's lives to settle our differences.”
Source: Mockingjay
“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”
Source: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
“I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still
writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time.”
“I no longer felt alone and it gave me, not strength, but a sweet sensation of happiness, though I knew sadness was lurking not far off, because all being arises from nonbeing, and everything that exists derives from its opposite.”
Source: All My Cats
“I no longer felt fifteen. Thirty-five, forty-five ; these numbers came, in turn, to feel somehow insufficient. Not even sixty-five, no, nor seventy-five, seemed to encompass what I was.
I wasn't JeongDae any more, the runt of the year. I wasn't Park JeongDae, whose ideas of love and fear were both bound up in the figure of his sister. A strange violence welled up within me, not spurred by the fact of my death, but simply because of the thoughts that wouldn't stop tearing through me, the things I needed to know. Who killed me, who killed my sister, and why. The more of myself I devoted to these questions, the firmer this new strength within me became.
The ceaseless flow of blood, blood that flowed from a place without eyes or cheeks, darkened, thickened, into a vicious treacle ooze.”
Source: Human Acts
“I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.”
Source: Armance
“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers---trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion---- from words to action; from comfort to uncomfortable; from self serving to self giving; from competition to supporting; to tradition to unity; from bias to acceptance; from me to us.”
“I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.”
Source: Advertisements for Myself
“I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.”
“I no longer hated the whining, menacing dragonfly we rode in, but admired its grace as we surged towards the clouds, the lights of Edinburgh twinkling below us like the starry constellations of a world upside down.”
“I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.”
“I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.”
“I no longer have any fear of pain because I'm the one inflicting it and can decide when it stops.”
Source: The Only Girl in the World
“I no longer have it (desire to play).”
“I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don’t vibrate on the same frequency there’s just no reason for us to waste our time. I’d rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.”
“I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.”
“I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.”
“I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.”
“I no longer hold you responsible for how I feel.”
“I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.”
“I no longer judge a marriage by its longevity. I judge it by the role it fills in your life.”
Source: I Do (I Think): Conversations About Modern Marriage
“I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.”
Source: The Beacon
“I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.”
Source: Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
“I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.”
“I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.”
Source: Infinity Blues
“I no longer know who I am, as I refuse to remember who I was.”
Source: I Am Going Where I Belong
“I no longer limit myself.”
“I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.”
“I no longer live to work, but work so that I can truly live. This is where inner harmony starts for me.”
“I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.”
“I no longer look to my abusers with any expectation– of remorse, or apology or restitution or restoration or relationship. I’m at peace, accepting that they won’t and can’t help me out of the mess they created. But, I’m the best qualified for that job anyway and I’m happy with the job I’m doing.”
Source: The Rescued Soul: The Writing Journey for the Healing of Incest and Family Betrayal
“I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are grey.”
“I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
Source: I explain a few things: selected poems
“I no longer merely confess that I am the righteousness of Christ. I realize that with His DNA in me through His blood, I could be nothing else. I realize the attributes of His DNA reside in me - whether dormant or active.”
“I no longer need my power tie, because I always have, my power finger.”
“I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.”
“I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.”
“I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.”
“I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“I no longer possessed the luxury of falling in love. If something should happen to Papa, I would lose the legacy and be left in poverty.”
Source: Her Own Legacy
“I no longer pray,
Nothing left ‘outside’ to pray to,
Now I look inside
Inside - Haiku”
Source: Legacy