Trent Reznor Quotes

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.

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.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.

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.

I knew guys way more talented than me who fell through the cracks.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

I wish I'd done better for England. I only played three Tests and three One Day internationals. You have to take your chances and, for whatever reason, I didn't.

I know so many people who have tremendous regret in their life.

My twenties were a write-off.

I don't remember my 20s as a good place.

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.