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“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”

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Book:Cat's Cradle: A Novel

Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel

“What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.”

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Author:Louise Penny

“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.”

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Author:Denis Waitley

“You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.”

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Author:Richard Martin Stern