Top 100 Can't Anymore Quotes

#1. When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

Austin Grossman

#2. Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

Sandra Bernhard

#3. I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.

Alexandra Bracken

#4. But you can't go back now? To that orderly, harmonious, intimate place?'
He thought about this, though there was no need to. 'That place doesn't exist anymore,' he said quietly.

Haruki Murakami

#5. God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

Tess Gerritsen

#6. Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore.
After all, I've got a whole new world to see.

Wendy Mass

#7. Raysel, you told me yourself that your father wasn't my liege anymore. I don't have to obey his wishes, spoken or unspoken, and so I can finally say this: go drown yourself, you self-righteous little bitch.

Seanan McGuire

#8. I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves.

Justin Broadrick

#9. We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it. Master Kai

Eleni Papanou

#10. I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

Aaron Spelling

#11. I regret the times I've been mean to people ... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.

Don Imus

#12. I can't tell anymore when I'm asleep and when I'm awake, or which is worse.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#13. Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from things
anymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening," he
said. "It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to accept
than to face it.

Katie Kacvinsky

#14. You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing a good job. I don't do that anymore.

Jacob Vargas

#15. You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

Holly Black

#16. I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

Drake

#17. I'm so fucking tired of being alone. I was scared that he'd tell me to fucking leave. Because that means going back to a life I can't see for myself anymore.

Krista Ritchie

#18. Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.

Bonnie Wright

#19. If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

Douglas Rushkoff

#20. We risk becoming so commonplace to the men we've thrown our lots in with who can't see us anymore, and who pat the sofa when they mean to pat our knee.

Helen Oyeyemi

#21. There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don't carry weight anymore.

Penelope Douglas

#22. Sure he's dead, and it's a good thing for us. It's hard to argue with a dead man. A dead man can't change his mind or make new rules, or behave like a bastard so no one will listen to him anymore. A dead man stays a saint.

Cherie Priest

#23. The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.

Giambattista Valli

#24. In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.

Gerald McRaney

#25. mama, you taught me to look pretty but i can't anymore, and i am learning that's okay. i am learning to sharpen my teeth and rule kingdoms, instead.

Arlen C.

#26. Don't worry, Ashton, he can't hurt me anymore, no one can. I have nothing left to lose, I said honestly.

Kirsty Moseley

#27. Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.

Elizabeth Wein

#28. I know I should try harder to make her feel necessary in my life. It totally freaked her when I said I didn't need her anymore. But isn't that the whole point of growing up? A healthy bird can fly the nest? Roots and wings and all that Hallmarky crap?

Kate Klise

#29. I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

Eric Clapton

#30. Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble.

Haruki Murakami

#31. The chickens don't remember that their wings were clipped...They just can't fly anymore, and they don't remember why or even that they once could."

-a bit of conversation between Ginny and her grandmother in The Memory of Flight

Debra Bowling

#32. The word "impossible" used to mean something. It was a line that couldn't be crossed. It was the outer edge of the safe zone.
I can't find that line anymore

Jonathan Maberry

#33. You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there.

Janet McTeer

#34. Yeah, I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore.
Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything. Now I know plenty and you can't fucking touch me.

Laura Wiess

#35. I'm not ignoring you, I just can't look at your eyes anymore.

Tina J. Richardson

#36. I know I don't throw very hard anymore, but I'd like to think I can still hurt a guy who's not looking.

Greg Maddux

#37. Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?

David Chang

#38. Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

Gene Ween

#39. The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and not playing by the rules, you can sing about them until you can't sing anymore.

Paul Stanley

#40. You're not saving lives, Dad. You can't save lives when no one's living anymore. (Maddie)

Katie Kacvinsky

#41. The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

Christian Boltanski

#42. A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting ... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

Genie Francis

#43. So now you can let go, my darling ... Let go ... Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes ... Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.

Aldous Huxley

#44. I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.

Steven Herrick

#45. After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

Tom Platz

#46. Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster. Other

Scott Jurek

#47. People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

David LaChapelle

#48. Love your job otherwise it's a burden u can't lift anymore!

Anuj Kr. Thakur

#49. This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

Bassem Youssef

#50. I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

James Frey

#51. People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

Mac Miller

#52. The only problem with getting married is that we can't fornicate anymore.

David Hoffman

#53. It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.

Scott Jurek

#54. But sometimes you can't control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore.

Colleen Hoover

#55. I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.

Paloma Picasso

#56. If God made us in his image, then maybe we have a right to play God when we can't find Him anymore.

Jenny Hubbard

#57. The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

Alanis Morissette

#58. I can't take anymore heartbreak," I confessed on a broken whisper.
"Then it's a good thing I'm not going to break your heart." He leaned down and pressed a kiss to my lips.

Rachel Higginson

#59. I enjoy going on hikes, and I enjoy the occasional yoga. The one thing I'm good at athletically - and I don't know if I'm good at it anymore because I haven't done this in a while - I can throw a pretty good spiral in football, but I have no idea how to play.

Bridgit Mendler

#60. I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.

Rihanna

#61. So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can't find the tumour anymore. It went away.

Hal Huggins

#62. Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.

Patrick Marber

#63. I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#64. I dislike what has happened to the quality of the sound of music; there is little depth or feeling left, and people can't get what they need from listening to music anymore, so it is dying.

Neil Young

#65. I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

Aleksandar Hemon

#66. Do you guys not get it? You can't hurt us anymore. You can't do anything to us. You can't take anything from us. You're nothing now.

Jeff Zentner

#67. You can only hurt a person so much and then he doesn't feel the pain anymore. A hard man can take a kicking and not whine about it.

John Fenton

#68. Sex means nothing to me anymore if it can't be with the person I want it to be with,

Toni Aleo

#69. She can't even think anymore, she prefers to sing.

Elena Poniatowska

#70. I'm sorry I can't properly introduce myself, but I don't have a name anymore. Hardly any of us do. We lose them like car keys, forget them like anniversaries.

Isaac Marion

#71. Well, if all three of us go we'll have to Disapparate separately," Ron was saying. "We can't all fit under the Cloak anymore.

J.K. Rowling

#72. God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.

Stephen Stills

#73. Can't call 'em zombies anymore," sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. "Now we gotta be all politically correct. It's like the Cold Wars never happened.

David S.E. Zapanta

#74. You just can't pull out the gun and blow the TV away anymore 'cause the baby might be sleeping.

Tre Cool

#75. One thing I can't do is walk around with a long face anymore - the Lord has taken that away." In

Lynn Eib

#76. My mind is desperately trying to formulate the words to let him know, to show him that my feelings run so much deeper than what those three little words can describe. I need to make him feel the way he's just made me feel, and 'I love you' just doesn't seem adequate anymore.

Elle Brooks

#77. We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

Alexander Kluge

#78. Crying's okay while it lasts, but you can only do it for so long. And it's weird to do it when you apparently can't make tears anymore (did this mean I wouldn't pee or sweat, either?). Anyway, eventually you're done, and you have to figure out what to do next.

MaryJanice Davidson

#79. Oh, you don't want to hear all my sad stories. I can't even bear to tell them anymore. Screw the past, right?

Gabrielle Zevin

#80. I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out.

Ridley Scott

#81. This isn't about simple morality. Not anymore. The world is too big, and there are worlds in worlds. They were always there, in everyone's heads, but now we can see them. We're starting to bleed into each other.

Brandon R. Chinn

#82. He had not known until that moment that your heart can break with love, that it can fill with such inexpressible tenderness till you just about can't stand it anymore.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

#83. You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standard secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today.

Nelson Algren

#84. I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

Natalie Merchant

#85. I do it because I love animals and I saw the reality. And I just couldn't ignore it anymore. I'm healthier for it, I'm happier for it. I can't imagine that if you're putting something in your body that is filled with fear or anxiety or pain, that that isn't somehow going to be inside of you.

Ellen DeGeneres

#86. I can't wait until they don't have me here anymore.

Jasmine Warga

#87. I did that girly little sighing thing you do when you can't handle all the sweetness anymore and bit my lip.

Shelly Crane

#88. I'm fine, considering I can't walk anymore," Pam replied, a sarcastic edge in her voice. "You look like your bringing news. What is it this time, I'm blind?

C.B. Cook

#89. Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

Maury Povich

#90. I wasn't into blame. Maybe because I had so much of it directed at me, you know? I guess you can go one of two ways with that. You can reflect it right back out at everybody else, or you can drop out of the whole blame paradigm. I guess I chose not to play the game anymore.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#91. I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.

Dan Hawkins

#92. Everything is not going to go right, not just on the field but also in business. There were times I was injured on the field and could not play for a year or more. It was easy to quit and say, "I can't do it anymore." It taught me I can bounce back. It's the same in business.

Shawne Merriman

#93. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.

Dolph Lundgren

#94. Thalia, if you don't want to be the prey anymore, then you can only do one thing. Become the hunter.

Chanda Hahn

#95. Can't clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don't punk out. Make it count.

Rachel Vincent

#96. I can't do this anymore if it's not with you. Fuck me straight to hell." ~Eve to Beckett

Debra Anastasia

#97. That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently - that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.

Rainbow Rowell

#98. I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Leo Buscaglia

#99. I do like going to the movies, but I like eating tons of sweets and ice cream, so I can't go to the movies anymore.

Tyson Fury

#100. I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.

Vint Cerf

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