Devin Townsend Quotes

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.

I've made some bad mistakes in life.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.