Michael Jackson Quotes

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

It's so easy to get caught up in this weird life. This isn't normal and I'm not singing for people that live my life. I'm singing to the life I used to have. The life I want to have again.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

I'm quite disappointed that I'll never relive my teenage years.

I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.