I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If only he can get over becoming a NERD.”
“If only he could be quiet, one feels, for an instant; if only he could stop the ceaseless chatter and jabber; if only he could relinquish the deceiving surface of illusions—then (ah then!) reality might seep in; something genuine, something deep, something true, something felt, could enter his soul.”
Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
“If only he could convince her, his dream would be within reach.”
Source: VoiceMates
“If only he could take her, ease this endless ache … but having lain with her once, he might want her even more afterward. In mathematics, one could take a finite figure and divide its content infinitely, with the result that even though the content was unchanged, the magnitude of its bounds went on forever. Potential infinity. It was the first time Cam had ever comprehended the concept in the form of a woman.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“If only he just this once let me be upset instead of always trying to fix things, no one would be blaming me for what happened. I wouldn't be blaming me.”
Source: You've Reached Sam
“If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.”
“If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.”
“If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.”
Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“If only I could be a woman. With soft hands, big breasts and long hair. To have men fawn all over me, to see them rise and fall. Alas, but all I have is small feet.”
Source: Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love
“If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business.”
“If only I could bottle up the drowsiness that plagued me during the day so I could use it at bedtime. - Amanda Rosenbloom”
Source: Astor Place Vintage
“If only I could change the world around me, perhaps my truth won’t one day be the end of me.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“If only I could cry. I am beyond that. The light, the light, lending itself to empty downtown Saturday, but still the stupid insensate cars flush by oblivious to their stupidity, my silent plea.
It isn't Mexico. It's not Paris. It's a painting by Hopper come to life. I am trapped inside a dead thing. Language is impossible here, even in English. Who has the arrogance to say: I'm mad, this is my crazy view of things, help me.
I'm trapped in a silent world, a tableau of forty years ago. The walls are different, the tables, the heights of the veiling and the chairs. I loom above this letter. The view past the rows of cakes in the plate glass window is unfamiliar. I am a ghost. There is nothing now between me and death. Death is the unfamiliarity of everything, the strangeness of the once familiar. The same spatial configurations only the light is hollow, sick.
I think I lack the energy to hit expensive discos which I don't know where they are to be rejected tonight. I look passable. My energy's low. I love to dance but despair is not a good muse.
This Mexico, babe. Men who don't love you but act wildly as if they do initially. Self-involved, narcissistic men... The men drink and philosophize about pain. The women live it solo and culturelessly. No one cries, except easily, sentimentally. The devil, therefore God, exists.
Oaxaca was a pushover compared to this. Pain had boundaries there.
Spare us big cities, oh lord!”
Source: Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico
“If only I could fall
sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!”
Source: After Dark
“If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.”
“If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the days leaking into the nights, swilling over the buildings, bleeding back again.
I could lie and not think of anything but ways to describe the sky, the clouds, the light.”
“If only I could know I’m dead... and think about my death... I’ll miss the thinking... my own opinions... consciousness... something to experience something...looking down and seeing my hands... Wow... hello mind... I know my fingers so well... I like them... okay...what’s going to happen now?... I feel it, I feel it, it’s coming, right here, right here, hurry... This was all so lucky.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!”
“If only I could look up and touch a tetromino-filled sky... Until then, I thankfully have Dream of Pixels.”
“If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!”
Source: The letters of Lewis Carroll
“If only I could paint a canvas I would leave it white.”
“If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.”
“If only I could start again, I would do everything differently. I would try to win your love through kindness rather than compel it by force, and if I failed, I would accept your will and wish you joy on your own path.”
“If only I could take it all back. If only I could change a few early choices, those seemingly unimportant, insignificant choices. How vital they appear to me now. How different my life would be if I had not allowed even the least degree of sin to enter in. But time can be turned backwards for no one.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“If only I could tell someone.
The humiliation I go through
when I think of my past
can only be described as grace.
We are created by being destroyed.”
“If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.”
“If only I could touch what’s broken in me, and tell it: “I’m sorry”.”
“If only I could touch what's broken inside me and tell it, I’m sorry.”
“If only I could turn back time
If only I had said what I still hide
If only I could turn back time
I would stay for the night.”
“If only I could value myself more! Alas! It is impossible.”
“If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.”
Source: A Wallflower Christmas: Number 5 in series
“If only I could wipe out this me who's here, right her and right now.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“If only I could wipe out this me who's here, right here and right now. I seriously consider it. In this thick wall of trees, on this path that's not a path, if I stopped breathing, my consciousness would silently be buried in the darkness, every last drop of my dark violent blood dripping out, my DNA rotting among the weeds. Then my battle would be over. Otherwise, I'll eternally be murdering my father, violating my mother, violating my sister, lashing out at the world forever. I close my eyes and try to find my center.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“If only I'd done it then, when I should have, everything would have been easy. What a joke.”
Source: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
“If only I'd listened to my Uncle Poo-poo and gone into dentistry," whined Pepsi.
"If I'd stayed home, I'd be big in encyclopedias by now," sniffled Moxie.
"And if I had ten pounds o' ciment and a couple o' sacks, you'd a' both gone for a stroll in that pond an hour ago," said Spam.”
Source: Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
“If only I’d thought of the right words
I would have held onto your heart.
If only I’d thought of the right words
I wouldn’t be breaking apart, all my pictures of you.”
“If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.”
Source: Me
“If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.”
“If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.”
“If only I had known a year ago what I'd be facing now. Until last year I lived with the innocent arrogance that my life was a simple product of effort, will, and design. But now I am a house of cards, held precariously by the fragile conspiracy of wind, weight, and angle. Perhaps it is best we cannot see into our futures.”
“If only I had known those trusted moments would be so few, I would have given voice to my unspoken promises, and shouted my unintended secrets to the sky. That my love for you extended far beyond our bed, and our island. That from the first time you told me you loved me and I let myself believe it, I was no longer shipwrecked on an island. I was where I was meant to be. With you.”
Source: The Gardens of Yes and No
“If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
“If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.”
“If only I had patience. If only I could sleep till spring. If only I were the hawthorn tree, too old to love, too wise to hate.”
Source: A Pocketful of Crows
“If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of." "That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.”
“If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.”
Source: We Are Okay
“If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!”
“If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.”