Jeanette Winterson Quotes

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you'll probably regret it forever.

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

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

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.

I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

You have to choose your future regrets.

The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.

I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out.

In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.