I Quotes
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“I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.”
Source: The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965
“I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.”
“I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.”
Source: Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition
“I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.”
Source: Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition
“I cannot expect anything from anyone when I know exactly what I am going to get.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.”
“I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.”
Source: The Politics of Experience
“I cannot explain how it all happened, Father. I know only that now I want to be with her.”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“I cannot explain how two souls join. No man or element or god ever could. But you are tied to each other. Because of that—because of your true, consuming, pure love—you will thrive together . . . or you will perish together.
“I don’t understand.” I swallowed, trying to make sense of it all.
If he hadn’t heard your voice, he’d be fine. But once he aged, however many years from now that might come, you would have found yourself deteriorating then. Or if you had disobeyed Me so fully that I had to kill you, he’d have died in the same breath. You are tied through your souls. Now, what happens to one body happens to the other. And since your voice has taken hold of him, killing him slowly, you fall down with him. Slower, of course, as you are still Mine. But it will consume you eventually, all the same.”
Source: The Siren
“I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.”
“I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant”
“I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.”
“I cannot explain what's between us, Lady Newbury, other than to say that I have an uncanny urge to kiss you whenever we meet.”
Source: The Earl's Complete Surrender
“I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?”
“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff’s miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.—My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. So don’t talk of our separation again: it is impracticable; and—”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.”
Source: Swann's Way
“I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.”
“I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.”
Source: Psycho-analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister
“I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.”
Source: Psycho-analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister
“I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow.”
Source: Radically Ordinary
“I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.”
“I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where millions of people live in inhuman conditions and many are literally dying of hunger. It is not possible to announce God the Father to these brothers and sisters without taking on the responsibility of building a more just society in the name of Christ.”
“I . . . cannot fall asleep because there is a foreign feeling in my veins, it is the feeling of finally getting what I wanted, and the feeling is colder than I ever thought it would be.”
Source: The Seas
“I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex perverts.' The last two categories here are very vague . . . The law of Idaho would have justified the sterilization of Socrates, Plato, Julius Caesar, and St. Paul.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience.”
“I cannot feel like a duchess in my mother’s sitting room.” “What do you feel like, then?” “Hmmm.” She took a sip of her tea. “Just Daphne Bridgerton, I suppose. It’s difficult to shed the surname in this clan. In spirit, that is.” “I hope that is a compliment,” Lady Bridgerton remarked. Daphne just smiled at her mother. “I shall never escape you, I’m afraid.” She turned to Gareth. “There is nothing like one’s family to make one feel like one has never grown up.”
Source: It's in his kiss
“I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.”
“I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.”
“I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.”
“I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.”
“I cannot find
a picture of you in my mind
to land on.”
Source: Incarnadine: Poems
“I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.”
“I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.”
“I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.”
“I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.”
“I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.”
Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842
“I cannot find my way: there is no star
In all the shrouded heavens anywhere”
Source: Robinson: Poems
“I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act.”
“I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know if I can find the words for it, but if this country ever recovers, it will not be in my lifetime. If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.”
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“I cannot fix the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago.
I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.”
“I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.”
“I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.”
“I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.”
“I cannot for the life of me understand why the American market keeps going up. Our economy has some real challenges. The infrastructure's falling apart. We're destroying jobs with technology. We are keeping the best and the brightest from around the world from coming to America to create new jobs and create new businesses. All of those things would give you pause to worry about the future.”
“I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.”
“I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13, 1524 Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.”