Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

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.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that poem by - that one guy. David Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood-' You know this poem, right? 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth-" "I loved that poem. But I remember thinking to myself: Why? How come you can't travel both? That seemed really unfair to me.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

I think we all have regrets but I try to just learn from them instead of giving them too much attention and validity in my life. I used to regret not going to a major four-year university and missing out on dorm life but if I had done that, who knows if I would be doing what I do now.

It does happen sometimes that you aren't able to understand whether you should go for a particular film or not, and you are left with only one or two choices.

I think if I had joined the Army early, I would not have been able to appear in the drama 'Boys over Flowers' and had such a happy 20s.

'Garbage Time' was the name I came up with. Midnight was my decision. Were they the right decisions? I dunno.

I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel like going back to my twenties and changing anything.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.

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

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.