Nastassja Kinski Quotes

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

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.

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

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

Some people will always be disappointed.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?