Charles Bradley Quotes

God knows I tried to make it earlier in life, but with all due respect to myself, nothing I ever did was any good.

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.

It's tough being me.

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

All my life I've felt quite misunderstood because of my personality.

I've made some bad mistakes in life.

I think everyone is lonely whether you are in a good marriage or a bad marriage somewhere down the line you become lonely, and to get rid of that loneliness you have to try really hard.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.

I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.

You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.

The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I used to feel extraordinarily isolated in my life as I was trying to figure out who I was and how to have intimate relationships. And so my central characters also were isolated and usually in quite a bit of pain.