I Cannot Quotes
2161 I Cannot quotes by 1388 unique authors
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I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.
— Katherine Boo
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
— Franz Kafka
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His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess…
— John Fowles
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The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but…
— Anais Nin
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While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot…
— C.S. Lewis
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...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
— Anne Lamott
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The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image,…
— Jonathan Sacks
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I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond…
— Juliet Marillier
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It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've seen such hate…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what…
— Colm Toibin
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry.…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are…
— Sylvia Plath
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I don’t know what to do,” Will said. “Mortmain has taken Tessa, and I believe now I know where she might be. There is a…
— Cassandra Clare
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I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart…
— R.L. LaFevers
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Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot…
— Jodi Picoult
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And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not…
— Cassandra Clare
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Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending…
— Matthew Quick
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Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself,…
— Cassandra Clare
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When I heard the ghouls coming for you, all I cared about was reaching you in time. How often must I tell you that you…
— Jeaniene Frost
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So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.
— Susanna Kearsley
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All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?…
— Unknown Author
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Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of…
— Cassandra Clare
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Will you come with me? For I cannot wait to share the world with you, Jem. There is so much to see.
— Cassandra Clare
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I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to…
— Rumiko Takahashi
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