Daniel Handler Quotes

I blew a chance at a million dollars.

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

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.

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.

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.

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

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

House of Fools,' that was the first thing I was sad that we couldn't do any more.

I've been dropped out of many movies at the last minute so that hurts because you feel sheer helplessness because you know how good you could've been in that role.

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

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through

The future is just wasted on some people.

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

Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know.

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'