Missed Opportunities Quotes

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
― James A. Michener

“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell”
― Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life

“With strained relationships, missed opportunities, and waning commitments, we must capture a profound and introspective view on dealing with life's challenges. A primordial clue to being a reasonable winner is being honest to ourselves and responsible to others. ( "The world was somewhere else")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There is nothing more heartbreaking than a squandered opportunity, a missed chance. I knew about stuff like that. I'd been young once. So many dreams had been dashed. But I dashed them myself. I wanted to be safe, whole, have a future of certainty. One makes mistakes when there is confusion between having a future at all and having the future one wants.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

“Every moment is like a wheel with a hundred spokes in it. We ride always at the hub of the wheel and go forward as it turns. We ignore the array of other moments constantly turning around us. We are surrounded by doorways; we never open them.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn

“We all have neglected opportunities to deplore.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Never look for this year’s birds in last year’s nests.”
― Miguel de Cervantes

“men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“He thought of all the times he could have visited, and hadn't. All those missed opportunities to call. All those times he'd forgotten her birthday.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“She was an historian; the past was her butter and bread. But, she thought as she made her way tot he bathroom and turned on the taps, nothing had readied her for the gentle persistent feeling growing stronger through this month, a steady rain in the back of her mind, that there was something she was missing, that she had failed somehow, that there had been a turn, back there in the road of her life, a trailhead, an opening she'd barrelled right past. Somewhere back there had been the right route, the way through, and she had missed it.”
― Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

“The biggest waste of an opportunity is the opportunity to tell someone how much you love them.”
― Akash S. Bansal, Desires and Destiny

“Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.”
― Iris Origo

“Our greatest regrets in life tend not to be the things we did wrong or failed to achieve; but rather the missed opportunities or things we didn't do that we wish we had.”
― Anoir Ou-chad

“All the roads you regret for not going to the end represent the alternative lives you have missed!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Miss the flight. Miss the boat. Miss the class. Miss the party. But, never ever miss your dream.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“I felt confused about my own life, as if I were living in the mind of a stranger. I wanted to understand her heart. I just wanted to be certain it was the right decision. Love was something I felt deeply but couldn't express, and now that I've said goodbye, I suddenly realize all the things I should have said.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“William's smile is heavy with missed opportunities and lost years. "When other people our age talk about their childhoods, they always seem to remember the sun shining the whole time. All I remember is constantly hoping for rain.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“All my life, she thought, I have let things pass me by.”
― Penelope Lively, Passing On

“Worship without your total submission is standing next to your blessings totally blindfolded.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“Your belly may be empty and opportunities flicker dimly, but let your cheeks glow fat with the fortune of life.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Chances are you have business cards lying around from people you have met that are doing what you want to be doing who can help you - if you ask. ”
― Germany Kent

“All too often missed opportunities are in plain sight.”
― Germany Kent

“I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A missed opportunity? It is like surviving an assassination attempt.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“~In the final analysis, life often unveils itself as an anthology of missed chances—an untold story of roads not traveled and destinies left unexplored. The passage of time often reveals life's ultimate truth—In the end, life is just a collection of missed opportunities...”
― Carson Anekeya

“The worst form of regret is the one born from unspoken words and missed opportunities, echoing the untold stories of what could have been.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“It is heartbreaking to see someone so cherished being washed away by a tidal wave of deep insecurities.”
― Eduvie Donald

“But then a tiny worm of a voice begins in her ear. You’ll never get ahead if you’re not willing to take risks. It hisses and mutters, buzzing with derision, warning of lost opportunities. The best way to achieve greatness, it says, is to be remarkable. Be assertive. Take chances.”
― Lisa Medved, The Engraver's Secret