I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I've learned that the most depressed people always seem to be the happiest”
“I've learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.”
Source: The Great Wall of Silence: The Silent Political Takeover of the United States
“I’ve learned that there is only so much fighting you can do before you really get hurt, so it’s better to bear what you can, and laugh at what you cannot. Save fighting for what really matters.”
Source: Thief, Witch, And Liar
“I’ve learned that there’s a difference between being alone and being lonely.”
Source: The Last 8
“I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.”
Source: Flawed
“I’ve learned the hard way that knowing how you feel and being able to express those feelings is a power all its own. It’s being brave enough to open up your heart to let someone see what’s inside, and being kind enough to look into their eyes to see their hopes and dreams.”
Source: What Makes a Hero
“I've learned the maximum from my failures.”
“I’ve learned this much about marriage,” he said now. “You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don’t.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I’ve learned through a series of trials and errors that the median space is actually what's missing in our daily walk.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“I’ve learned through the years that it’s not where you live, it’s the people who surround you that make you feel at home.”
Source: Skipping Stones
“I've Learned To Accept that one is never as great or terrible as they are made to feel, and the truth lies somewhere in between.”
“I've learned to appreciate what I've got. I'm not going to waste an ounce of energy on sorting through the past or with worrying about the future. Life's too short for that.”
Source: A Beautiful Fall
“I've learned to appreciate what my grandmother told me when I was younger, which was simple. When you were born, your life is like an empty vase. All your life people put flowers in your vase. You should give the flowers back because you don't want to leave this earth with your vase full.”
“i’ve learned to
be gentle with that part of
me that takes it in so deeply
and holds on to it for far too long,
that’s also the part of me that loves
like an awakening and knows what it’s like
to trace a soul in my fingertips”
“I’ve learned to bully doesn’t only involve attacking someone physically or verbally; it is so much more. Bullying consists of invading other people’s property, humiliation, mind games (pretending to be someone’s friend), manipulation, making threats, spreading rumors, showing aggressive behavior, and/or excluding someone from a group on purpose.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“I’ve learned to get really good at this—say one thing when I’m thinking about something else, act like I’m listening when I’m not, pretend to be calm and happy when really I’m freaking out. It’s one of the skills you perfect as you get older. You have to learn that people are always listening. [...]
Sometimes I feel as though there are two me’s, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she’s supposed to nod and says what she’s supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams and says “Gray.” Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though I’m two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second.”
Source: Delirium
“I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.”
“I've learned to manage fear, over the past few years. Accept its lurking presence. Sleep despite its slinking touch. Strangle it down deep when I need to.”
Source: The Will of the Many
“I’ve learned to only express my opinion when I absolutely have to, and even then, it comes out so direct, frustrated, and self-righteous that I’ll have to apologize for it within a week or so.”
Source: The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“I've learned to reframe telling people as inviting in, instead of coming out”
“I've learned to tell the difference between something quiet and something abandoned. This goes deeper than just a stillness. It's like the moments before the world goes to sleep... but we're the only ones left awake to notice it.”
“I’ve learned to treat mistakes as art: unexpected, instructive, and always worth an open mind.”
“I've learned two things the hard way: You can't fix stupid and you shouldn't use up your patience to fix stupid.”
“I've learnt not to draw my sword first to strike.
That in no way portends I have the most feeble of minds or might . . .
Probably, I'm waiting for the perfect moment to startle with a fatal strike.”
“I've learnt of deceit, betrayed by my own smile, that ceases to hide, as her name resonates through the empty confines where rationality once resided, in the presence of eyes so deep; the oceans seem shallow, and lips red like summer evening strawberries before a sunset. My body conveys a message, my brain has no time to articulate the same, my heart won this race, pacing.”
“I’ve learnt only one thing in my life-
Never to let the quest culminate
At the railing of the skies-
There’s a world beyond!”
Source: The Soul Unbound
“I've learnt some Things. Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there's love everywhere around me - there's love for my friends, there's love for my paintings, there's love for myself.”
Source: Loveless
“I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace”
Source: Watcher in the Shadows
“I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green…”
“I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.”
Source: A Million Doorways
“I've left pieces of my heart in so many places that are my partial homes. Home feels like a collage of pieces across a multitude of cities.”
“I've let go of the pain, and in doing so, I've let go of you.”
“I've let it slide because you're new at this, but the sub doesn't get to demand to be fucked.”
Source: A Jade's Trick
“I've lived a life of unfinished things.”
“I've lived a long time,' Magnus said. 'So many years, and no, it doesn't feel like enough. I won't lie and say it does. I want to live on - partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.'
Alec looked stricken. 'We'll die together,' he said. 'Let me stay at least, with you.'
'You have to go back. You have to go back to the world.'
'I don't want the world. I want you,' Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“I've lived away from the world for so much in my life, Mr. Winterborne, that I sometimes wonder who I am, or if I belong anywhere."
Winterborne studied her. "Trenear plans to take you and your sisters to London when you've finished mourning."
Helen nodded. "I haven't been to town since I was a child. I remember it as a very large and exciting place." She paused, vaguely surprised that she was confiding in him. "Now I think I might find it... intimidating."
A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. "What happens when you're intimidated? Run to the nearest corner and hide, do you?"
"I should say not," she said primly, wondering if she were being teased. "I do what has to be done, no matter what the situation."
Winterborne's smile widened until she saw the flash of white teeth against that deep bronze complexion. "I suppose I know that better than most," he said softly.
Understanding that he was referring to how she had helped him through the fever... and remembering how she had held that black head in the crook of her arm, and bathed his face and neck... Helen felt a blush start. Not the ordinary kind of blush that faded soon after it started. This one kept heating and heating, spreading all through her until she was so uncomfortable that she could scarcely breathe. She made the mistake of glancing into his simmering coffee-black eyes, and she felt positively immolated.”
Source: Cold-Hearted Rake
“I’ve lived for nothing and might soon die for less. My Life, Part One will be cancelled midway through the first season”
Source: Life's Big Zoo
“I've lived in this city all my life. I grew up on the Upper East Side. And when I was ten years old, I was rich, I was an aristocrat. Riding around in taxis, surrounded by comfort, and all I thought about was art and music. Now, I'm 36, and all I think about is money.”
Source: My Dinner With André
“I’ve lived in this world a long time, and you can’t change what you like, even if you’d want to.”
Source: Imogene in New Orleans
“I've lived life without you, and I couldn't bear it. Not when I had the strength to save you.”
Source: The Bone Maker
“I’ve lived more of my life with her in it than not. After living in the not for the last five years, I realized I never wanted to live there again.”
Source: The Soulmate Theory
“I've lived my life devoid of the whole teenage angst for so long, I'm not sure I can handle all this. I'm not built dor it.”
Source: What's a Soulmate?
“I've lived my life fighting to overcome but still yet the troubles I face, may never end in this endless race.”
“I’ve lived on both sides of the abuse. I wear bruises on both sides of my fist. I have wept “what am I doing” and I have cried “why did they do that”. The child of an alcoholic and the alcoholic of a child. It’s strange how broken spirits, broken hearts, and broken homes walk hand-in-hand. How they leave a clear trail of shattered to follow.
We are all picking out sins of the father like shrapnel left over from the day we were born. Bang. Welcome to life. Try not to step on a landmine before you get to twenty. Here are your parents. They hate you. Sorry that you won the race.
Me? I’ve got a piece of broken mirror lodged dangerously close to my heart. I never know which twist in the story will be the one to open up my insides and help me drown in my own soul.
People asked me where I picked up the wisdom. I don’t know that any of this actually is made of wisdom. There’s just too much fluff and well-meaning for my taste.
For me, the path was always made of pain. I haven’t found feel better or act right yet... not for myself. I’m not the best one to help anybody else find it... that’s for certain... but I know every road that leads to resentment. I’ve walked them more times than I can count. I can’t tell you how to get where you’re going, but I can give you a roadmap that highlights the places I wish I never went.
The first place on the list sits pretty damn close to home.
There’s a town called Grief & Regret
just north of Salvation, USA.
I’m putting do not enter signs
on every road that goes there.”
“I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing.
- An Eightieth Birthday”
Source: Travelling Light
“I’ve lived several years on this planet, but only now do I understand what true strength is. Strength is making a decision that goes against everything you believe in, a decision that causes your heart to scream out to you ‘NOOOOO!’, a decision that rips your soul apart ….. yet you still know it’s right.
And despite all the uncertainty and hesitation and misgivings, you make a choice which leaves nothing but an empty hole in your heart.
And all you’re left with is tears and doubt and emotions that have been hit by a fucking wrecking ball. And yet you still make that decision.
That’s strength”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“I’ve lived so much of my life in a constant state of wishing and waiting; sometimes it was hard to stop these thoughts in my head from running wild.”
“I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore.”
Source: The age of reason