Marianne Faithfull Quotes

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didnt. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I thinkI done the best with itI knew how but itstill wasntmine. It neverhas been.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I'm not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.

I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

If I would have had the same opportunities when I was 22, there's a good chance I would have squandered them. I know my work wouldn't have been any good.

I don't regret anything in life.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd probably live the same way.

I won't look back and say 'I wish I could change things.'

Do I have some regrets? Of course.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head.

I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I didn't see. Hearts that I hurt needlessly. Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don't make no difference: The past can't be rewritten. You get the life you're given.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

If someone were to say, 'Well, what would you have done differently?' I'd say, 'Nothing'. I think you need to make mistakes.

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?