Am Quotes (page 224)

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• anyone
• tells
• tell

You must not tell anyone, what I am about to tell you. Maxine Hong Kingston

• house
• end
• writing

But in the end I understood this language. I understood it, I understand it, all wrong perhaps. That is not what matters. It told me to write the report. Does this mean I am freer now than I was? I do not know. I shall learn. Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining. Samuel Beckett

• devil
• driving
• bodies

My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives. William Shakespeare

• feeling
• dream
• hero

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one. Albert Einstein

• time
• wishes
• free

If desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desprately as I wish. Suzanne Collins

• time
• purpose
• waste

The reason why I consider myself a clever man is simply because I could never in my life finish anything I'd started. All right, I am a talker, a harmless, boring talker as we all are. But what can I do if the direct and sole purpose of every intelligent man is to talk, that is to say, to waste his time deliberately? Fyodor Dostoevsky

• brother
• black
• skin

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. Alan Moore

• thankful
• thanks
• thankfully

I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself. Albert Einstein

• self
• experience
• wise

I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely Henry David Thoreau

• universe
• universes
• universally

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being. Jacques Lacan

• understanding
• saying
• back

--I don’t quite grasp your meaning. --Just as I don’t quite understand what I am saying. But back to the point…. Jose Saramago

• world
• smile
• love smile

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me. Jane Austen

• life
• illness
• occasionally

I am either lacerated or ill at easeand occasionally subject to gusts of life Roland Barthes

• world
• will
• willing

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. Anais Nin

• wishes
• alone
• mountain

For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world and its miseries forever. At length I wandered towards these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify. We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition. I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley