Road Not Taken Quotes:

One always wonders about roads not taken.

- Warren Christopher

topic: Taken, Wonder, Road Not Taken

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

- Robert Breault

topic: Taken, Opportunity, Way, Seize The Opportunity, Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

source: "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Success, Different Roads, Journey And Destination

But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

- Davy Rothbart

source: Davy Rothbart (2012). “My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays”, p.333, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

topic: Taken, Ends, Plans, Road Not Taken

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

- Robert Breault

topic: Taken, Grandmother, Grandpa, Children And Grandchildren, Funny Grandmother

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

- Robert Frost

source: Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

topic: Sorry, Taken, Journey, Two Roads, Road Less Traveled

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

- Robert Breault

topic: Regret, Taken, Haste, Road Not Taken

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Kings, Taken, Self, Road Not Taken

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

- Jenny Han

topic: Giving, What If, Asking, Way Of Thinking, Road Not Taken

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

- William Faulkner

topic: Wisdom, Past, History, Spun, Wrong Turn

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

- Juan Gabriel

topic: Taken, Whim, Dangerous, Mania, Road Not Taken

I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.

- Liz Garbus

source: "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

topic: Regret, Taken, Artist, Road Not Taken

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.92, Anchor

topic: Taken, Frost, Mouths, Road Not Taken

He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.

- Ann Brashares

source: Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.21, Random House

topic: Distance, Taken, Someday, Road Not Taken

Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.

- Laura Mullen

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Taken, Writing, Differences, Road Not Taken

In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Life, Taken, Moving, Exciting Adventures, Foreign Oil