I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.”
“I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.”
“I wish I'd be murdered...Then I'd never have to worry again. When you die, you become perfect. I'd be like Princess Diana. Everyone loves her now.”
Source: The Grownup
“I wish I'd been able to introduce Maile and Ariel years ago. Even if they share nothing more than a single dance, that's worth it. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you shouldn't waste time not being with people who bring you joy.”
Source: Hurts to Love You
“I wish I’d fallen softly. Light and graceful like a feather drifting slowly to the earth on a warm and dreamy summer’s day. I wish that I’d landed softly too. But there is nothing soft or graceful about that devastating moment when the worst has come to pass. The unavoidable truth is that it is hard, cold and brutal. All that you know to be true and good in life shatters in an instant. You feel like a delicate pottery bowl violently tossed from your place of rest, watching yourself crash and scatter across the hostile dark earth. The sound is deafening. Time stops. Inside, the quiet ache of shock and heartbreak slowly makes its grip known. They cut deep, these jagged edges of broken sherds. You gasp for air hungrily, yet somehow forget how to breathe.”
Source: Mending Softly: Finding Hope & Healing After Ectopic Pregnancy Loss
“I wish I'd made time to check in with the kids more. To start a conversation. To let them know that it was OK to be sad, and OK to be worried.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted together, a film projected on the back of my mind.”
Source: Glow
“I wish I’d partied a little less. People always say ‘be true to yourself.’ But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”
Source: Humans of New York: Stories
“I wish I’d remembered not to use it around other people, because it was kind of our word.”
Source: Let It Snow
“I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.”
Source: The diaries of Lewis Carroll [pseud.]
“I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.”
“I wish I didn't have a heart to love you.”
“I wish I didn't have to control my heart. If I could surrender, even if only for a weekend, this rain falling on my face would feel different. If love were easy, I would be embracing him now, and the words of his song would be our story.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“I wish I didn't have to think about you. You wanted to impress me; well, I'm not impressed, I'm disgusted...You wanted to make damn good and sure I'd never be able to turn over in bed again without feeling that body beside me, not there but tangible, like a leg that's been cut off. Gone but the place still hurts.”
Source: Life Before Man
“I wish I didn’t know, absolutely, you sign papers of ours without the reading of them.”
“I give them a scan.” Sometimes. “If you fucked me over, I’m a cop. I know how to make you pay without letting it show. Like, the one where I tranq your wine, dress you in a diaper and pasties, get you in your office and transmit the image globally.”
“You’ve given this some thought.”
“Just in my free time.” She gave his hands a squeeze before drawing hers away and laying them on his cheeks. “Bottom line? She wasn’t wrong to trust a man she loves—because it had to be love. He’s not rich or good-looking or powerful. She just loves the wrong man. I don’t.”
“Well now,” he murmured, then leaned in to take her mouth in a soft, slow, sweet kiss.
“There’s the one where I coat the inside of all your boxers with a biological that causes your works to develop festering boils.”
It made him wince. “Christ Jesus, you obviously have far too much free time.”
“I’ve got a whole list,” she said as he opened the front door. “For him, too,” she added, shooting a finger at Summerset.
Summerset merely cocked his eyebrows. “No visible injuries once again. We appear to be on a streak.”
“For him I have the stick up his ass surgically removed, and without it, his whole body collapses into a puddle of ghoul.”
She tossed her coat over the newel post. “You’ll be too busy with festering boils to have him reanimated.”
Source: Connections in Death
“I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs.
I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims,
Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare,
Wish America had universal health care...
Cause ain't no help here.”
“I wish I didn't have any flaws! I think everybody is flawed.”
“I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.”
“I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.”
“I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.”
“I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.”
“I wish. I dream big. Mama always said not to do things half-assed. What’s the use of a half-ass dream?”
“I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.”
“I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.”
“I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.”
“I wish I got a notification on my phone every time I appeared in someone's dreams. Wouldn't that be cool, or no, because you like being able to secretly think about me?”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!”
“I wish I had [letters], can you imagine their value, and I don't mean merely financially. I am sure they were accidentally destroyed or that Schaub found them and destroyed them. [Adolf] Hitler didn't want those letters read by anyone but Eva [Braun] and had made that point clear in the course of the years.”
“I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.”
“I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.”
“I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.”
Source: Before I Die
“I wish I had a brush that could paint the whole sky and turn every morning into night. I wish I could always sleep next to you in the never ending night and hold your hand, watching the reflection of all the stars in your eyes, while you smile and watch them in the sky with wonder.”
“I wish I had a cool concert shirt I could wear, but the truth is I’ve never been all that into modern music. I’m much more of a classics girl.
And by classics, I mean Strauss.”
Source: Shipwreck Girl
“I wish I had a dictionary to translate mixed signals.”
“I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.”
“I wish I had a friend whom I can text at 2 am and we can just talk and laugh and send hugs so the world doesn't seem moving so slowly.”
“I wish I had a funny story.”
“I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.”
“I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.”
“I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.”
“I wish I had a little bit more privacy.”
“I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.”
“I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.”
“I wish I had a lot of tattoos.”
“I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!”
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
“I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”
Source: Fever
“I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about”
“I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.”
“I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four impala!”
“I wish I had a river I could skate away on?”