Tomas Transtromer Quotes

One always wonders about roads not taken.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

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.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.

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.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.