I Stood Quotes

210 quotes by 190 authors

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. — Edgar Allan Poe
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy… — Victoria Woodhull
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. — William Wordsworth
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a… — Diana Gabaldon
Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught… — Nick Flynn
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all… — William Boyd
I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness… — Mary Oliver
I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. — H.G. Wells
I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window.… — Doris Lessing
I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs… — Jeff Lindsay
When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right. — Ted Kooser
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a… — Donald Miller
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a… — Donald Miller
So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly… — Louise GluÌˆck
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and… — Soren Kierkegaard
Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be… — David Wojnarowicz
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this? — Haruki Murakami
I stood there watching Phoebe arrange the pillows and the sheets. She isn't thinking that I... I mean, she doesn't think that she and I… — James Patterson

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