It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.
I still think of things for 'Jill' all the time. It's annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.
I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.
The day breaks not, it is my heart.
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.
I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
Enough is ever-receding.
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.
