Oscar Wilde Quotes

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

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!

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams, and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way.

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

Think about how many dreams die with people - if you don't believe in yourself, whatever you're doing is for no reason.

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.

That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.

I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.

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

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotencies.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.