Unfulfilled Possibilities Quotes

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential.

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

There's much unlocked potential in Philips.

It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatros, potentials unknowingly murdered.

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...