lost opportunities Quotes

“Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us. Alas, they cannot be forgotten. In the front rank of the torments that do follow us are the memories of the things we should have done, of the opportunities which came to us and we took not.”

“it was one of those times where nothing was lost because nothing had ever been found.”

“The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.”

“Shall we sum up the whole history of Russia in a single phrase? It is the land of smothered opportunities.”

“Maddy squeezed Jeremy’s arm sympathetically, for she knew it was hard for him to hear that this poor specimen would have the opportunity that he longed for in vain.”

We might have been friends in another world—you and I, and I and she.

There was a time when I hoped that there might be a happy future for me, not at the Red House, not alone. Perhaps it was never more than an idle day-dream, for I am no more worthy of her than Mark was.

“Thou hadst great elements. Peradventure, hadst thou met earlier with a better love than mine, this evil had not been.”