Alternate Paths Quotes

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

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.

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

We always may be what we might have been.

The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

When the movie 'Sliding Doors' came out, it almost sent me into existential crisis because I think about that all the time. Like, 'Wait. If I left my house five minutes later, maybe this would have happened and I'd be on this different track of my life. How would that affect me?'

To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

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

For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know.

Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.

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

Missing out on 'Monty Python' was a real blow at the time. I sometimes wonder how things would have been different if I had been invited to join 'Monty Python,' but as the saying goes, one door closes, another opens.

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?