Unattained Aspirations Quotes

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

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

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

I never thought I would not play for my country.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

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

I cannot look back and say I did everything I wanted to do in TNA.

There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

My grandmother really wanted to see me become a singer, but she passed away before I became one.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

I am sick at heart at the mistakes and lost opportunities that are so prevalent.