Christopher Moore Quotes

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

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

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

How my achievements mock me!

There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.

People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.