Christine and the Queens Quotes

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

The memories for the missed opportunities are stronger than for the ones I managed to get over the line in.

Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

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

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

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.

It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.

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

Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.

I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

I know so many people who have tremendous regret in their life.