I Cannot Quotes

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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… — Marcel Proust
The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things… — Samuel Beckett
Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence,… — Clive Barker
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is… — Mahatma Gandhi
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… — Jane Austen
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible,… — Leo Rosten
If I cannot fly, let me sing. — Stephen Sondheim
And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today? — Elizabeth Gilbert
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. — Simone Weil
My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot. — Ashleigh Brilliant
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I cannot love a man who cannot protect me. — Anne Bronte
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of… — Anne Lamott
...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you… — Robin McKinley
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in… — Albert Einstein
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be… — Mark Twain
I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till… — C.S. Lewis
I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter… — Charles Dickens
I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at… — Jane Austen
In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I… — George Bernard Shaw

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