Charles Dickens Quotes

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

The memories for the missed opportunities are stronger than for the ones I managed to get over the line in.

I don't remember my 20s as a good place.

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

'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.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

I knew guys way more talented than me who fell through the cracks.

My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.

I failed myself when I ruined a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be Robert Griffin III's running mate during his Heisman Trophy-winning season at Baylor.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!