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You can't dwell on what might have been ... and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.
— Wendelin Van Draanen
I said what might have been a bad word meaning excrement, but I hope that I used a polite synonym.
— Dean Koontz
National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.
— Adolf Hitler
Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.
— James MacArthur
When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
— Dave Davies
It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
— Christopher Reeve
It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.
— Sophie Kinsella
But old dreams never really died. They were always there, living as regrets for what might have been
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
— George Eliot
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
— Paul Auster
The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.
— Deborah Smith
I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.
— Margaret Atwood
Don't regret what might have been. Accept what is and rejoice in what is yet to be.
— MaryAnn Koopmann
Child," said Aslan, "did I not explain to you once before that no one is ever told what might have been?
— C.S. Lewis
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
— Chester Barnard
I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
— Janet Jackson
It's sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is.
— Alice McDermott
What might have been is an abstractionRemaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation. — T. S. Eliot
Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!
— Charles Dickens
Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.
— Stephen Schwartz
If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.
— Wendell Johnson
What did the poet say? That the saddest words of tongue or pen were what might have been?
— Charles Todd
You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have.
— Jonathan Tropper
He felt weighted down by guilt and regret for what might have been his last words to all of them.
— Karen Ann Wirtz
No man is obliged to be what he might have been.
— David Berlinski
Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
— Luce Irigaray
Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been
— Arthur Ransome
I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.
— Nicholas Sparks
He just wanted to see it. From afar. To see what might have been, what he was glad hadn't been. But maybe should have been.
— Julia Quinn
I wish to Heaven that I might forget. It would be so much easier than to go through life always remembering what might have been.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.
— Jack Nicholson
I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
— Edward Gorey
What I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head itmight just as well have been a snowy day in the country. — Douglas Coupland
We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.
— Terry Goodkind
Imagine what the world might have been like if Larry and Sergey instead became professors or took a job at Microsoft.
— Jared Tame
By her hand, she draws you down. With her mouth, she breathes you in. Hope and dreams and soul devoured. Lostto you, what might have been.
— Douglas Smith
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
— Robert H. Schuller
There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Don't give up love for what might be, for if you do, you shall never know what could have been.
— Darby Browne
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
— Lily Tomlin
If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
— Eileen Myles
What Might Have Been {Couplet} Dwell not upon what might have been,
Within such idle spin, you can never win. — Beryl Dov
One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.
— Joyce Meyer
Each of us wore our memories of what might have been.
— Juliet Marillier
You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
— Richard Martin Stern
These long years later it is worsefor I remember what it was
as well as what it might have been. — Rod McKuen
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
— George Carlin
I doubt you've been idle these last twenty-four hours, so tell me what I need to know and who I might have to kill to protect her.
— Vanessa Kelly
But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
— Kate DiCamillo
Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been.
— Kimberley Freeman
You can't become who you're supposed to be if you keep looking back on what might have been. - Alexis
— Candace Knoebel
As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.
— Noel Gallagher
He might as well have been telling me to build a damn rocketship. I had no idea what to do.
— Amanda Hocking
Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.
— Walter Kirn
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
— Robert Bresson
If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.
— Courtney Barnett
It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past.
— Alice McDermott
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
— Hillary Clinton
The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?
— Kingsley Amis
No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.
— Rabih Alameddine
He had been my almost. My might-have-been.I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss.
Still, I collected kiss stories.
-Susie Salmon — Alice Sebold
Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.
— Marsha Petrie Sue
They had forgiven themselves for the harm they had done each other, and they were rapt in a regard of what their life together might have been.
— John Williams
Time past and time futurewhat might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present. — T. S. Eliot
No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
— Adelaide Anne Procter
There was no use grieving over what might have been
— Janette Oke
You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.
— Tim McGraw
What he has lost is everything that hasn't happened to him, everything that he is not, but might have been.
— Nicola Morgan
But fate and circumstance had made me no more than a shadow in his life, a phantom of what might have been
— Daphne Du Maurier
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
— Aldrich Ames
An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.
— Michael Owen
Do not allow yourself to be buriedIn the howling Of what might have been. — Sharon M. Van Sluys
To be perfectly frank, his ding-dong wouldn't have been what you might call the subject of an exhaustive search. Albert
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
None of us can know how poor we are in comparison with what we might have been if we had lived habitually nearer to God in prayer.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It's never to late to be what you might have been
— Katherine Applegate
