Mercedes Lackey Quotes

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

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 deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.

I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

I'm so proud of what we accomplished during our era of Colts football, but I think every person, down to the last man, would tell you that he expected to win more than one ring in Indy. If there's any regret I have from my career, it's that.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

But dreams move on, if you wait too long.

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

The missing links in my life's work, no less!

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.