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922 Unable quotes by 723 unique authors

I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he’d brought into my… — Karen Chance
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire
He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed… — Philip K. Dick
Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it… — C.S. Lewis
Even then, more than a year earlier, there were neurons in her head, not far from her ears, that were being strangled to death, too… — Lisa Genova
Rhage burning deep inside Uncontrollable Phury, unable to hide Trust me and I'll let my Wrath begin This Tohrment building up within My Vischous attitude… — J R Ward
Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. — Kurt Vonnegut
Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it… — Suzanne Collins
Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you.… — Milan Kundera
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak… — Osamu Dazai
Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry. — Scott Westerfeld
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek… — Anais Nin
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer… — Alain de Botton
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.… — William Faulkner
In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only… — Matt Taibbi
Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security… — Richard Dawkins
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. — Franz Kafka
Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at… — L.A. Weatherly
We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed.… — Sheri S. Tepper
I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not… — Catherynne M. Valente
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the… — Sylvia Plath
Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!” “And you didn’t see that coming?” said… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the… — Elizabeth Scott
One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps… — Libba Bray
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed… — Naomi Wolf

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