Might Have Been Quotes:

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

- Bret Harte

source: 'Mrs Judge Jenkins.'

topic: Might, Tongue, Might Have Been

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Might, Matter, Might Have Been, Realm Of Possibility, Past Present Future

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

- Christopher Reeve

topic: Might, Harps, Might Have Been

Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

- Drake

topic: Humble, Might, Might Have Been, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

- Drew Brees

topic: Might, Might Have Been, Hardest, Hardest Hit

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

- Edward Gorey

source: Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

topic: Thinking, Might, Might Have Been

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

- Edward Gorey

source: Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

topic: Might, Might Have Been

Another occupation might have been better.

- F. H. Bradley

topic: Occupation, Might, Might Have Been

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

- Fernando Pessoa

topic: Might, Longing, Might Have Been, Book Of Disquiet

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

- George Eliot

topic: Reality, Might, Might Have Been

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

- John Fante

source: John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.500, Canongate Books

topic: Might, Might Have Been

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

source: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

topic: Might, Common, Might Have Been

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

- Maria Dahvana Headley

source: Maria Dahvana Headley (2007). “The Year of Yes”, Hyperion

topic: Might, Might Have Been

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

- Patricia Briggs

topic: Vampire, Might, Might Have Been

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

- Sally Field

topic: Forever, Might, Might Have Been

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

- Terry Goodkind

topic: Might, Might Have Been, Live By

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

- Wendelin Van Draanen

topic: Done, Might, Might Have Been

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.91, Penguin

topic: Might, Tendencies, Might Have Been

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd and Other Tales”, p.27, Penguin

topic: Might, Might Have Been, Has Beens

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

- Noel Gallagher

topic: Thinking, Might, Might Have Been

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

- Simon Newcomb

source: Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

topic: Might, Might Have Been, Mathematician