Quotes About Missed Opportunities In Life

#1. In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.

Kate Morton

#2. It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

Mitch Miller

#3. Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

Roger Ebert

#4. I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

Lucinda Williams

#5. Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.

Ferran Adria

#6. Allow opportunities so they won't become missed opportunities.

Franklin Gillette

#7. My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. [God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

Charles R. Swindoll

#9. Mithai teach me big lesson
it easier to love someone if you can make them happy.

Thrity Umrigar

#10. Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.

Matthew Carter

#11. Grant didn't look like a sophomore - Grant looked like Brad Pitt's body double.

Ally Carter

#12. Your soul sees no missed opportunities. In reality every road you traveled offered up an experience as a gift, and as the complex fabric of life wove itself, each experience added to your growth.

Deepak Chopra

#13. A lazy person never gets what he wants, but a hard-working man gets what he goes after.

Jack Blanco

#14. a paradox; the best opportunities we want are the best opportunities we miss; the best opportunities we wanted, are the best opportunities we missed and the best opportunities we seek for stay far away from us. In the end, we only settle for any opportunity. Life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. We will never known what opportunities we may have missed in life by showing up tight-fisted. It is hard to receive anything if we don't open our hands to give.

Bruna Martinuzzi

#16. Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Eric Roth

#17. He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone.

Laini Taylor

#18. Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities.

Emil Cioran

#19. At the end of the night they all seemed so happy. Maybe it was just because they hadn't seen each other in a while, but as they all gathered around hugging, kissing, and well-wishing each other, I found myself feeling for the first time in my life like maybe I'd missed out on something.

Dito Montiel

#20. When life kicks me, I kick it back.

Tarryn Fisher

#21. Uncomplicate it. Don't make excuses. Some of life's biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don't miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you're too busy rereading the last one.

Kandi Steiner

#22. A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

Clive Owen

#24. I have learned that all anyone ever wants is to feel at peace with the sadness and love they have cobbled together into a life, with opportunities missed and those misguidedly taken ...

Rebecca Coleman

#25. TRAFFICATOR
Roadblocks in life divert us to opportunities we would have otherwise missed
Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#26. She had been impulsive all her life, made decisions without thought for the future, and regretted none of them, however dotty. Looking back, all she regretted were the opportunities missed, either because they had come along at the wrong time or because she had been too timid to grasp them.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#27. Suddenly your whole life is like a car crash, no brakes, gaining momentum, piling up behind you. Your mistakes, missed opportunities, all the time you've wasted, a twisted, rusting heap of scrap metal that can't be salvaged. Overwhelming you. Crushing you.

Debbie Howells

#28. Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.

Daniel Willey

#29. Days like today should come with a warning label, I muse. Today's Going to Suck! Skip the Coffee and Go Straight for the Alcohol.

Laura Kreitzer

#30. I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

Elizabeth Berg