Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

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

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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.

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.

With my kids I just missed so many things, and that's a regret I have.

I wasted so many years in my youth.

You cannot look back and think what if.

I could have joined West Brom or Brighton. What would have happened had I joined one of them? I do not want to think about it. I do not think about it.

Let me tell you a few things about regret. There is no end to it. Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

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.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop!

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

"Do you have any regrets?" Of course I do.

I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't.