quotes about Might Have Been
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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!'
-- Bret HarteSource : 'Mrs Judge Jenkins.'
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We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely
-- C. S. Lewis -
It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
-- Christopher Reeve -
Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.
-- Drake -
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It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.
-- Drew Brees -
I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
-- Edward GoreySource : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
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What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
-- Edward GoreySource : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
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Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
-- George Eliot -
You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.
-- John FanteSource : John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.500, Canongate Books
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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
-- Letitia Elizabeth LandonSource : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”
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I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.
-- Maria Dahvana HeadleySource : Maria Dahvana Headley (2007). “The Year of Yes”, Hyperion
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He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
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If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
-- Sally Field -
We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.
-- Terry Goodkind -
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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