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Quotes About Unrealized

Of all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
~ Unknown
...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
~ Marguerite Duras
as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
~ Marguerite Duras
If There Be Sorrow If there be sorrow let it be for things undone undreamed unrealized unattained to these add one: Love withheld ... restrained
~ Mari Evans
Cynicism is idealism turned inside out. It stems from an expectation unrealized and a promise perverted. That is so much of Washington today in a nutshell.
~ Mark Leibovich
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
~ Unknown
A uvijek izgleda lijepo ono sto se nije ostvarilo.
~ Meša Selimovi?
People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.
~ Michael Koryta
The result of all these unrealized schemes, however, was that Obama and Putin did not speak again for the next three years, until Putin became president again. No matter what the Russian constitution said, that lack of contact was not good for U.S.-Russian relations.
~ Michael McFaul
What he has lost is everything that hasn't happened to him, everything that he is not, but might have been.
~ Nicola Morgan
Your people contain incredible potential, but they die without using much of it.
~ Octavia E. Butler
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
~ Oscar Wilde
Parfois, le cœur se serre à la pensée des choses qui auraient pu être et qui n'ont pas été.
~ Patrick Modiano
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.
~ Paul Auster
Of what use is unrealized divinity to anyone? If he is unconscious of his higher self, is a man any better off? The link of being linked with God potentially is not enough. It must also be personally discovered, felt, known, and demonstrated in living activity.
~ Paul Brunton