Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

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

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

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.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

I thought I was loved.

Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Some people will always be disappointed.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

The worst thing in life is not to die but to live with bitterness.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.