Laini Taylor Quotes

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

I hate not practicing.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas Layin' In The Sun, Talkin' 'Bout The Things They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done... But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas All Ran Away And Hid From One Little Did.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

How my achievements mock me!

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.

If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.