Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I'm quite disappointed that I'll never relive my teenage years.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

He missed his imagined future.

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

There are times when you want to go where you used to go and you can't go there.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

The memories for the missed opportunities are stronger than for the ones I managed to get over the line in.

I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn't come do stuff in America.