Ina May Gaskin Quotes

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

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.

My childhood is always going to limit me.

I think you always have regrets.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.

He [Richard Nixon] was more lacking in self-confidence than any leading politician I have known.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

I would hate to be a bitter, aging actor.

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn't one of them.

I'm going to die unhappy. That's how artists roll!

It's very claustrophobic to live a life which is not really how you wanted to live. You are forcing yourself to be quiet and behave like someone you are not.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Maybe it would have been better if neither of us had been born.