I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was as if this man whom they had all so greatly admired, and who had endured so much at the hands of the Nazis -a man of exemplary resilience and courage- had by his suicide demonstrated a frailty, a crumbling of character they were loath to accept.”
Source: Depression
“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“It was as if this woman had stepped out of a book, and he submitted to her existence, validated by literature, with admiration and the humble loyalty of a man who, following false convictions, sees in a resolute woman an exception and not the rule.”
Source: Flight Without End
“It was as if those who created the Tarzan makeover didn't grasp the mind of Walt Disney.”
Source: Walt's Disneyland: It's Still There If You Know Where to Look
“It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“It was as if we'd known each other for a thousand years.”
“It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you've lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging, less threatening. Alaska had enlarged each of us. No one is ever the same after coming back from Alaska.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“It was as if we found the still heart of the universe. Nothing moved except for us.”
Source: Circe
“It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.”
“It was as if we played chess after denying me both bishops and knights.”
Source: Death Leaves a Shadow
“It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonful of loose tea, and so, unable to decide what to do, we did what all Irish men and women do: we had tea. Suddenly the sun appeared and not for the first or last time we felt it uplifting us and changing everything. It seemed like a holiday.”
Source: O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare
“It was as if when he left he'd taken some of the screws that held her together and now all she could do was walk around all wonky and falling apart”
Source: What Milo Saw
“It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.”
Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
“It was as if you became a burning match the moment you became mine. And I'm afraid that the remaining burning embers will disappear. I want to just blame you for choosing me... just so that you could put my mind at ease. But I am already too old... to do that now.”
Source: Love Tractor
“It was as if you were listening to the rhythm, but you do not know why the music is feeling so familiar yet ethereal. Or why you continue listening to it even though you could have stopped and moved on? The enigma was probably what made it charming in the first place.”
Source: Inexplicable Distances
“It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she`d been before.”
“It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.”
Source: Special deliveries: new and selected poems
“it was as impossible to imagine falling out of love with Elliot as it was to imagine holding my breath for an hour.”
Source: Love and Other Words
“It was as relaxing as being tickled.”
“It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")”
“It was as that strange, vivid night was drawing to a close, as the faint blue light of dawn had begun to seep into the sky's black ink, that I suddenly thought of you, Dong-ho.”
Source: Human Acts
“It was as though a memo had been forwarded to every government body demanding all nations sing the same tune. The official narrative was to hibernate, with the threat of fines and imprisonment, and await a vaccine; a vaccine that would be wielded as a stick to an obedient dog”
Source: Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain
“It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself”
“It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.”
Source: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
“It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness. Or perhaps, Starling thought, it excited him to see her marked in this particular way. She couldn't tell. The sparks in his eyes flew into his darkness like fireflies down a cave.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“It was as though God's hand was reaching down to Anna, and she was reaching her hands to Harvey and Joe, creating a circle of love.”
Source: A Secret Encounter
“It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.”
Source: Easy
“It was as though he had awakened something inside her. All those desires she had felt in passing had culminated, growing deeper, hungrier, darker.”
Source: Star Crossed
“It was as though he no longer needed to drink to forget whatever it was he could not remember. Now he could not remember that he had ever forgotten anything. Perhaps that was why for the first time after that old day in France he was beginning to miss the presence of other people. Shadrack had improved enough to feel lonely. If he was lonely before, he didn't know because the noise he kept up, the roaring, the busyness protected him from knowing it.”
Source: Sula
“It was as though her kiss had awoken the long dormant demon inside, kept quiet, pliant, and restrained around all these humans.
“Moira, Moira, Moira,” he murmured, looking back to the bathroom door. “What have you done to me?”
Source: Predator
“It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.”
“It was as though I had even to trick my own mind by chattering in such a casual and blase manner; any other way stopped at the point of motivation. It was as though I were emotionally constipated and the words could not otherwise escape my lips. If it were not for the methods I had devised, my words, like my screams and so many of my sobs, would have remained silent.
People would push me to get to the point. When what I had to say was negative, this was quite simple. Opinions that had nothing to do with my own identity or needs rolled off my tongue like wisecracks from a stand-up comedian.
....Hiding behind the characters of Carol and Willie, I could say what I thought, but the problem was that I could not say what I felt. One solution was to become cold and clinical
about topics I might feel something about. Everyone does this to an extent, in order to cover up what they feel, but I had actually to convince myself about things; it made me a
shell of a person.”
Source: Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl
“It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.”
“It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.”
“It was as though it is human fate to rebel and revolt in order to protect what one owns. Today, they take the sea from you, and tomorrow, it would be hard to walk on the ground without permission.
Is human fate to live and fight?”
Source: The Drowned
“It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“It was as though she had reached some state of acceptance about life–that if there was a bad experience, there wouldn’t only be bad experiences. She realized that she hadn’t tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery. That, she supposed, was the basis of depression as well as the difference between fear and despair. Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when the door closed and locked behind you.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way”
Source: The Deptford trilogy
“It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a bland outside.”
Source: As I Lay Dying
“It was as though someone, somewhere, were dreaming this and he had crossed into it without permission. Everything both familiar and foreign.”
Source: Snow Hunters
“It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.”
Source: Liesl & Po
“It was as though the throttling nature of the cloth against her mouth wanted to sentence her to a lifetime of silence.”
Source: Imperfect Mortals : A Collection of Short Stories
“It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“It was as though they knew me well by now, despite knowing barely anything about me. It was as though you could know a person without knowing the details of their life. You could know their light, because you shared the same light, the way I’d known the prayers the night before without knowing I knew them. I had never imagined this kind of warmth could be so safe, abundant. I’d spent so much time cutting and carving away at myself, worshipping cold. I feared that light and warmth were a trick, a tease, false offerings that lured you into relaxing, and just when you made yourself vulnerable, they would be seized. Better to adapt to the cold. Better to thrust the cold on oneself. Be prepared.
Yet with the Schwebels it was so easy. The light was sustained, plentiful. It wasn’t going anywhere. And so I ate what I wanted, when I wanted, maybe even overindulged compared to what a normal person would eat. I wasn’t sure exactly what that was yet, to eat normally. But I feasted on the food and the warmth, the cozy togetherness, and I realized that the food itself was only one part of what a person needed in order to be sustained.”
Source: Milk Fed
“It was as though they spoke, spat, argued for the mere purpose of breaking the silence.”
Source: Untitled Observations: and other fictional stories
“It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.”
“It was as though you struggled against
fierce current jagged with debris
to save me then. I am desperate still.”
Source: Collected Poems
“It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.”
Source: This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein
“It was as true," said Mr. Barkis, " as turnips is. It was as true," said Mr. Barkis, nodding his nightcap, which was his only means of emphasis, " as taxes is.”