Naomi Watts Quotes

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

I feel like I was born in the wrong time.

There are times when you wish you were somewhere else, and someone else.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.

The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.