Emily Carr Quotes

I think you always have regrets.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

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.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.

I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

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.

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

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

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

I don't think people in England ever saw the best of me.

I could have given more and I'm sorry about how it all ended, but I still look back on my time in Germany positively.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.