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“Don't cry over the shots you've missed; weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!”

Source: Daily Drive 365

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!”

Poetry Regret Lost Opportunities

Book:Maud Muller

Source: Maud Muller

“Is this my dream, or the truth? O would that we had met When I had my burning youth; But I grow old among dreams, A weather-worn, marble triton Among the streams.”

Poetry Time Dreams Ageing Lost Opportunities

Book:The Wild Swans at Coole

Source: The Wild Swans at Coole

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

Sad Nothing Finality Missed Chances By The Numbers James Richardson Lost Opportunities

Book:By the Numbers

Source: By the Numbers

“For the thousandth time he wished he’d just met her. That they were but two strangers traveling together, that such lovely, filthy thoughts did not break him in two, but were only a pleasant pastime as he slowly fell under the spell of her aloof beauty and her hidden intensity. … But no, they’d met long ago, in the furthest years of his childhood. Their chances had come and gone. All they had ahead of them were a tedious road and a final good-bye.”

Lost Love Second Chance Lost Opportunities Estranged Relationship

Book:Not Quite a Husband

Source: Not Quite a Husband

“It never came down to two roads at all, or if it did, I took the one less traveled by for a driveway, or the entrance to a mall, or it slipped past like a station off the air while I bent down to fiddle with the dial.”

Choices Allusion Missed Chances By The Numbers James Richardson Lost Opportunities

Book:By the Numbers

Source: By the Numbers