Alexander Smith Quotes

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

People often ask whether you'd alter anything about your life. I can honestly say I wouldn't change a thing.

I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.

Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.

I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.

If I regret leaving City, I'd regret leaving Madrid, I would regret Arsenal, and I would regret maybe even Metz, where I started off. So I have no regrets in life; life is too short to start regretting things.

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.