Quotes About Alternate

I kept thinking, in another life, if I made different choices, it could be you and me instead.

the world as it was could never be more than a fraction of the world, for the real also consisted of what could have happened but didn't, that one road was no better or worse than any other road, but the torment of being alive in a single body was that at any given moment you had to be on one road only, even though you could have been on another, traveling toward an altogether different place.

That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don't happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.

Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn't happen in another. Everything could be different.

Il n'y a pas qu'un seul monde. Il y en a plusieurs, et ils existent tous parallèlement les uns aux autres, mondes et antimondes, mondes et mondes fantômes, et chacun d'entre eux est rêvé ou imaginé ou écrit par un habitant d'un autre monde. Chaque monde est la création d'un esprit.

If you can imagine an alternative world, then you can see things through someone else's eyes, even if their sense of reality doesn't match your own. This makes possible perspective-taking, empathy, and much else.

Varna hired Joséphine to star in the 1930–31 show called Paris qui Remue, or Swinging Paris, and he planned to alternate the years in which Mistinguett and Joséphine starred. Mistinguett objected strongly to the shared show. She also complained about the director's purchase

Funny how different life could be, so many things that make you take one route instead of another. If only we could live them all.

Peter G. Tsouras