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Iain Thomas Quotes

Total quotes: 46
“I pray you're ok. That it's ok. I pray all the parts of you that I remember are still there. I pray that you're happy. Even if it's not with me.”
— Iain Thomas, The Things I Say Before I Go
Tagged: Heartbreak
“You are beautiful and loved by the universe that made you, with every atom and star moving in perfect alignment to make you, you.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Inspirational, You Are Loved
“You and I both know, the dark doesn’t make the bruises disappear. It just makes them harder to see.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: dark, Concealment, concealing sorrows, Pain
“Sometimes the most important thing you can say is just, ‘Are you ok?’”
— Iain Thomas, A quote by Iain Thomas
Tagged: Comfort Someone, Assurance
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness…”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Bitterness, heart, Softness
“You do not need another heart to make yours beat, despite popular misconception.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Independence, Relationship, Beliefs, Love
“There are some people you’ll never see again. At least, not in the same way.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You: Just The Words
Tagged: People, Trust
“I hide because there’s more to me than what you see and I’m not sure you’d like the rest. I know that sometimes, I don’t like the rest.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Identity
“You are defined by the way in which you treat the people you love. And, the people you hate.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You: 2007- 2017
Tagged: Love, treating others, actions, Reaction
“I know you have feelings left somewhere. But they’re all so hard to reach.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Feelings, Left Behind, Forgotten, Searching
“You are more than a list of mistakes and if anyone tells you otherwise, let it be the last they make.”
— Iain Thomas, A quote by Iain Thomas
Tagged: Mistakes, Failure, Flaws, Imperfections
“I have a list in my head of all the feelings I still want to feel before I die. And you have ticked so many things off that list.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Feelings, Before I Die, List, Love
“Yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There's no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I've ended the world before. No one survived. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Poetry, Kissing, Love, Lust, Destruction, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“I’m not the person you left behind anymore. There’s no one here to miss.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Person, person you left, Love, breakup, Move On
“You were a dream. Then a reality. Now a memory.”
— Iain Thomas, The City Rises And Falls
Tagged: Love
“I hope they make you happy. That’s what I’ll say.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Hiding the Pain
“Stop telling me to follow my heart. It once led me to you.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You and Only You
Tagged: broken, Mistakes, Love
“It does not count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself. 

It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go.

That's when it counts. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, Change, Overcoming Obstacles, Challenges, Rising To Challenges, Motivating
“I’m a picture without a frame. A poem without a rhyme. A car with three wheels. A sun without fire. I am a gun without bullets. I am the truth without someone to hear it. I am a feeling without someone to feel it. This is who I am. A mess without you. Something beautiful with you.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Metaphors
“It only starts to hurt when you leave.”
— Iain Thomas
Tagged: Hurting, Leave
“So you look for patterns because that’s what humans do to try and make sense of things. In hope of some divine order. And you look in movies and songs and the things that you read for symbols, points and swirls that match your own. But the only real pattern there is, is the one you make when you hold up a mirror. And reflect.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You: Just The Words
Tagged: Patterns, humanity, Reflection, Sense
“He loves her like he can never grab enough of her between his fingers.”
— Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
Tagged: Love, Lust, Desire
“They want me. I want you. And you want someone else. But none of us wants to turn around.”
— Iain Thomas, The Shape Of It via iwrotethisforyou.me
Tagged: Love, romance, Relationships, Love & Relationships, liking someone who doesn't love you back, Unrequited Love
“You shouldn't have come here, made of fireworks, if you didn't want me to play with fire.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You: 2007- 2017
Tagged: Love, romance, Attraction, admiration, enticement
“When I sit near you, my hands suddenly become alien things and I don't know where to put them or what they usually do, like this is the first time I've ever had hands and maybe they go in my pockets and maybe they don't.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, romance, Infatuation, affection, Attraction, Feelings, Feelings of Love
“Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone like you.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You: 2007- 2017
Tagged: meet, Meeting, Social, People, Relationship, Wonder, Think
“I hope you discover that love is both a feeling and an action, like light is both a particle and a wave.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Romantic Feeling, Poetic, Symbolism, Perception of Love
“And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, "Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Soul, Attraction, soulmate
“There was a research article I read with the headline, ‘Love Is A Single Act Committed By Two Brains,’ because of the way oxytocin levels rose in a mother and a son when they hugged. I wish more poets became scientists.”
— Iain Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.
Tagged: Happiness, Love, Science, Poetry, Poets
“While I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul.”
— Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
Tagged: Logic, Emotion, Rationality, Healing, INFP, ENFP
“I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.”
— Iain Thomas, The Agony Of Being Other People
Tagged: Identity
“Sometimes the problem isn’t that we should treat others as we’d want to be treated, the problem is that we do, and we don’t realize that actually, we should treat others how they want to be treated.”
— Iain Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.
Tagged: Relationships, Friendship, Treating People As They Want To Be Treated, Girl Who Cares Too Much
“Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”
— Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
Tagged: Human Condition, Never Apologize, Feelings
“There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.”
— Iain Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.
Tagged: Happiness, Human Nature, Courage, Inspirational
“I sometimes wonder what you’re thinking of me, then I remember that you’re probably wondering what I think of you, which makes me wonder if any of us ever think of ourselves.”
— Iain Thomas, The Protective Nature Of Glass
Tagged: Thoughts, Curiosity, Thinking, Expectations
“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.”
— Iain Thomas, 25 Love Poems For The NSA
Tagged: Conversation, Skin Deep, Love, Sensuality, Passion, Writers
“I keep thinking you already know. I keep thinking I’ve sent you letters that were only ever written in my mind.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love
“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this! And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, No. This is what’s important.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: worries, Priorities, Following Your Heart
“There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favorite.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, romance, Passion, Sacrifice, Pain
“Things just break sometimes. Maybe we should blame the third person we became, that personality we shared together. Maybe it's their fault because you're a good person and I think I'm a good person too. We just weren't made for this. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
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