What Could Have Been Quotes

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

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

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

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

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

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.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

An Ibra-Messi tandem would have been marvellous, but history decided otherwise.

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.