Adam Duritz Quotes

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

I'm never happy with my performance.

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'

It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

How my achievements mock me!

A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing...There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself.