Quotes About Alternate paths

Many artists live with the shadow version of themselves. Unawareness of how things might have been if they have done this and not that. If life had made this choice for them rather than that. The road not taken remains at the back of the mind. For some their shadow exists as an external presence, for others an inner haunting.

We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.

There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.

We all have alternate lives we might have lived had we made different decisions, including decisions about whom to marry. I

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taking.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

It's all these choices that we could have made, the things we might have done. We see them with perfect clarity only long after the moment has passed. Just thirty seconds either way, and I wouldn't have this story to tell you. I wouldn't be the same person telling it.

It is always possible to exchange one hell god for another.

BaÅŸka tür bir dünyada babam çok daha baÅŸar?l? olabilirdi.

Or. A golden word: "Or." Opportunities, rebirths, other roads.

All of this could have been different if both of his parents had taken a breath.

It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.

He wished he would of lived a little differently.

Según Feynman, un sistema no tiene una sola historia, sino todas las historias posibles.

it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

He just wanted to see it. From afar. To see what might have been, what he was glad hadn't been. But maybe should have been.

When the movie 'Sliding Doors' came out, it almost sent me into existential crisis because I think about that all the time. Like, 'Wait. If I left my house five minutes later, maybe this would have happened and I'd be on this different track of my life. How would that affect me?'

We are all living, at most, half of a life. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.

But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.

Thank you, lives we did not lead, might like to lead, might still lead.

There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way.