I Cannot Quotes
2161 quotes by 1433 authors
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I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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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.…
— Julia Quinn
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I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in…
— Annie Dillard
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I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone…
— Arthur Golden
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When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.
— Susanna Kearsley
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I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see…
— Unknown Author
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Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
— Emily Bronte
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Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can meet like this.…
— Ai Yazawa
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Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head,…
— Anne Sexton
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I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My…
— Derek Landy
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You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for…
— Woodrow Wilson
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I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.
— Derek Landy
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I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
— Arthur Miller
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I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory. As…
— S.J. Watson
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and…
— Jack Kerouac
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I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
— Erin Morgenstern
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I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.
— Roald Dahl
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Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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