What Ifs Quotes

“I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

“You can't be overwhelmed by the what-ifs, or you'll miss out on the best part.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down

“And the What Ifs are the worst.”
― Susane Colasanti, Take Me There

“Never Kill your What Ifs,
But first be Grateful for What Is”
― Wordions

“This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the what ifs come to me.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

“I am becoming better at releasing the “what-ifs” that clog my closets.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.

“Do you think I'll let it go, that I'll hide from it because you, who's anything but a coward, is afraid of what ifs?”
― Nora Roberts, The Collector

“What if I had been a pebble, or a stone, or a tree or a dog! What if I had been a cloud or a drop of rain! What if I had not been born! I would have loved to be anything but a human being. To live is to suffer. You are responsible for my being here.”
― Mubashar Nawaz and Khurram Shahzad

“Leaders do not play a "what if game". They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“I was never really about the money. Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity and a kind of "What if...”
― Blake Mycoskie

“What if the dog fetches the stick back because it thinks you enjoy the throwing?”
― Sanhita Baruah

“What if I had made different choices from the start? What if I had stuck around to watch another year of seasons spin here in Oxford, staying to see the daffodils bloom or to wander beneath the privet tunnel hand in hand with Fisher? What if we had kept right on kissing until the naked ladies emerged near the Osage orange? What if I had lingered long enough to see cape jasmine arrive, her voluptuous white bundles an aromatic call for summer love? Or even longer, when the spider lilies burst open in the fall and the yellow autumn light fell low among missy roots? What if I had stayed through winter, forming snow angels with my lover beneath the icy cedar boughs? What if I had not let fear defeat me after Fisher knelt before me in my mother's backyard garden, ring in his hand and happy-ever-after in his heart?”
― Julie Cantrell, Perennials

“I keep having this fantasy about some wide river or channel I'm on the bank of. I can look up, and on the far side is another, better self, holding hands with Mercer—that's his name, my ex—and both of them are watching me flail over here, watching me from the life I'm supposed to have had. When did it become impossible to get there from here? When did that bridge get burned?”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“What if everyone knew what a flower could do?”
― Katherine Brickley, The Blossom Shoppe

“What if there was no tomorrow
and everyone showed up
anyway...”
― Nanette L. Avery

“Like the good spirit, ready to convict us, knowing is looking right at us, waiting for our inner space to surrender ourselves to the need of it,” the young lady said. “Knowing things outside of the things we are allowed to live is possible. We just need to be aware about the possibility of ‘What if?’ It is that simple. But if we judge others based on the fact that what happened to them hasn’t happened to us, we allow ourselves to know only one thing. And that is to not know anything. And then our state of consciousness is only aware of one thing.

“And that is the life we live. We go about our ways with eyes that bypass the hurt that underlies the physical tears others walk with, yet we still feel the need to mention the absence of our tears to prove their sinful manner of living. Our minds become the ears and the eyes with which we judge what we should know differently. This is according to our rationalized state of consciousness. We simply overlook the suffering of others because we ourselves suffer as well from the lack of knowing it. That part I get it. When your sister buries her dear child, please mourn from the heart. You don’t have to bury someone to know death is painful. In fact, he should never be anyone’s eye, let alone you.”
― Tabitha Biel Luak, What a Godly Privilege to Be Born a Man

“Uneori ne e dor doar de ceea ce ar fi putut să fie.”
― Adriana C. Grigore, Se îndoaie după vânt

“What if I had made different choices from the start? What if I had stuck around to watch another year of seasons spin here in Oxford, staying to see the daffodils bloom or to wander beneath the privet tunnel hand in hand with Fisher? What if we had kept right on kissing until the naked ladies emerged near the Osage orange? What if I had lingered long enough to see cape jasmine arrive, her voluptuous white bundles an aromatic call for summer love? Or even longer, when the spider lilies burst open in the fall and the yellow autumn light fell low among mossy roots? What if I had stayed through winter, forming snow angels with my lover beneath the icy cedar boughs? What if I had not let fear defeat me after Fisher knelt before me in my mother's backyard garden, ring in his hand and happy-ever-after in his heart?”
― Julie Cantrell, Perennials

“Признаюсь, я не дуже багато прочитала книг за своє життя, точніше я би сказала мало і не завжди чогось якісного. Але якщо подумати, якби інтернету не існувало, я би прочитала вже неймовірну кількість книг, - і ця думка ошарашує мене. Наче мені дали смарт окуляри з майбутнього, в яких я бачу далі ніж інші люди..

Також сумно мені, тому що інтернет це звісно круто, дуже круто, але як не крути, книги краще. Я відкрила для себе стільки дивовижних книг, з яких дізналася того, чого не дізналася в інтернеті!

І ще скільки всього там чекає на мене...

"Ви читаєте книгу, якої немає. Burned by russians. 29.12”
― Veronika-Mykola Fresco

“How easy it is to idealize someone when your time together was fraught and short. We were never bored together, never grated on each other's nerves. It wasn't real.”
― Claudia Lux

“How easy it is to idealize someone when your time together was fraught and short. We were never bored together, never grated on each other's nerves. It wasn't real.”
― Fiona Davis

“If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike.”
― Gino D'Acampo