I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free—— The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.”
“I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”
Source: the bell jar
“I didn’t want or expect this. But I couldn’t resist you.”
Source: Poison Study
“I didn’t want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.”
“I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.”
“I didn’t want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face I’d found so attractive at the airport. But you were there all right: the blue eyes, blondish hair, and tiny scar. Only you didn’t look beautiful this time. Just evil.”
Source: Stolen
“I didn’t want to be like all these socialites – they sit at home, and go to the debutant ball, and marry some rich guy and that’s it. That’s all they do. I wanted to do my own thing so I could buy whatever I want, do whatever I want.”
“I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.”
“I didn’t want to kill girls… even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.”
“I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.”
Source: Something, Maybe
“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”
“I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie.”
“I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?”
“I die a little everyday, in trying to revive what I lost yesterday!”
“I die a little,
In the echo of your silence.”
“I die a Queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpepper”
“I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.”
“I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.”
“I die everyday so that your children can live.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“I die for speaking the language of the angels.”
“I die hard but am not afraid to go.”
“I die,” I say with as much conviction as I can muster. “What happens to me then?” Willis says. “If you don’t live, I never have a chance to be born, to live, to make a difference. You’re throwing my life away and I have no say in it.” “What if the world is a better place without me in it?” “My grandmother made a huge difference to the lives of so many people”
“I die in almost every film I've been in.”
“I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.”
Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including
“I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God.”
“I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.”
“I die of thirst here at the fountainside.”
“I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.”
“I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.”
“I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.”
“I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.”
Source: Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
“I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.”
Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius
“I died a lot
to live a little
with you”
“I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
Source: Selected Poems of Rumi
“I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.”
“I died for Beauty--but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room”
“I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less.”
“I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.”
Source: Poems from prison
“I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it”
Source: Auschwitz and After
“I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.”
“i died in your eyes a thousand times
and i wondered why
you still loved me”
“I died just as I came into the world: in total indifference.”
Source: Wordless: Autobiography of a Ghost
“I died last night. Seventy years too young.”
“I died to myself and I live for society.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“I died to the law so that I might live for God.”
“I died upon that mountain. There is no question. A part of me will forever be upon that mountain. Dead. That's my brothers died. If there's a part of me that live, because of my brothers. Because of them I am still alive, and I can never forget, that no matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets, or how far you fall. You are never out of the fight.”
“I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.”