I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am tired of men hurting women and each other and themselves.”
Source: Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood
“I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.”
“I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive functioning, and were shaped by societal and cultural norms and realities, it is not surprising that you would get stuck. The narcissistic relationship is like a riptide that pulls you back in even as you try to swim away. The intensity, attentiveness, and highs and lows are why you swim out to where the riptide is. The abusive behavior makes you want to swim away from the riptide, but the guilt and fear of leaving, the practical issues raised by leaving (financial, safety, cultural, family), as well as the natural drive toward attachment, connection, and love are what keep you stuck in the riptide's pull.”
Source: It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
“I am tired of pursuing
happiness. I want to breathe it in as ubiquitous as air.”
“I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.”
“I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.”
Source: The farthest shore
“I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.”
“I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
“I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.”
“I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.”
“I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.”
“I am tired of the lifeless tears. I’ve cried so many bitter tears of yesterday because tomorrow has never come. I am immune to salty tears as I drown in an ocean of tears over and over again. When will I be able to come up for air? Sadly, life dunks my head underwater again as I cry while tears are buried beneath my sheets at night.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I am tired of the litany
of months, September October
I am tired of the way the seasons
keep changing, mimicking
the seasons of the flesh
which are real and finite.”
“I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all men by the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Illinois.”
“I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)”
“I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.”
“I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves.”
“I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.”
“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.”
Source: The Night Circus
“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.”
“I am tired
of undressing to no comment,
years and years of youth
wasted to the particles in the air.”
Source: Virgin
“I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.”
“I am tired of you all tolerating bullying at your school! You all should be ashamed of yourselves! Take the wool off of your eyes and see the truth for what it is--and it is the bullying; known as the Silent Killer!”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I am tired of you all tolerating bullying at your school! You all should be ashamed of yourselves! You all need to put a stop to bullying instead of condoning it. Take the wool off of your eyes and see the truth for what it is--and it is the bullying; known as the Silent Killer!”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I am tired that today’s world system punishes women: worships them in words, hates them in deeds, and does not protect them. I am tired that the consequences of “masculine games” — like war — are always paid by women, children, and the weaker ones. I am tired that the economy and society exploit women economically, emotionally, and physically — as workers, as mothers, as women, as the glue that holds families together.”
“I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.”
“I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.”
Source: Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
“I am tired, I want to go home. I want to continue my art work, I want to plant a garden, I want to walk in the forest, I want to walk in the fields, I just want to lie down on the grass and feel the sun against my skin. I want to be able to hold my family close to me and not have someone tell me time's up.”
“I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.”
“I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.”
“I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“I am to be cured, now that summer is finished
Harvested of my sickness, re-arranged for winter.
Seven devils are not easily banished
Nor the knot of blindness loosened by a quick knife.
Outside, ignored, the July evenings saunter,
I have turned back to my room, waiting for my life,
Trying to recollect how the white drug fell
Clogging my veins in an avalanche of sleep
- Life Story”
Source: The Survivors
“I am to be loved, honored and respected solely because I exist. I am to be cherished, spoiled, celebrated because I Am! I was made to be admired.
I am a beloved child of God after all.”
Source: After the Affair: Re-Membering
“I am to blame because, first of all, I am cleverer than anybody else around me.”
Source: Notes from Underground & The Double
“I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.”
“I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“I am to create a new order of humans - hurricane humans, who are devout believers in service and care nothing for worldly pleasures. Are you that human? If you are, then erase every bit of self from the soil of your mind and place society in its place.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.”
“I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics”
“I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.”
“I am to stupid to give up, not smart enough to die”
“I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.”
“I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.”
Source: Aunts Omnibus
“I am told I was born. I do not remember.”
“I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.”
Source: The Boy on Cinnamon Street