Quotes About Paths Not Taken

#1. I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted. But no matter where I go, I still come home.

Layne Staley

#2. The past believed in dates. And everyone's life consisted of dates, giving life a rhythm and sense of gradation, as if from the eminence of a date one could look back and down, and see the past itself. A clear, comprehensible past, divided up into squares of events, lines of paths taken.

Andrey Kurkov

#3. As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.

Jasper Johns

#4. There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadn't done ... the paths you hadn't taken, the things you hadn't experienced.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus.

Michelle Tea

#6. My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

Kate Winslet

#7. We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.

Blake Crouch

#8. I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

Sara Sheridan

#9. There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.

Peter Andre

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

Elisabeth Eaves

#11. 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 ...

Ben Gibbard

#12. Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.

J. Jack Halberstam

#13. The greatest victories are therefore never without the shadow of loss; every path you take, no matter how lofty or effulgent, aches not only with the memory of what you left behind, but with the ghosts of all the untaken paths, now never to be taken, running parallel.

Paul Murray

#14. The most happy ought to wish for death.

Seneca The Younger

#15. Regrets are born of paths never taken.

Michael Dell

#16. In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead.

Matthew Donnelly

#18. Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place.

Beau Biden

#19. Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

Stephen King

#20. I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.

Herbie Hancock

#21. How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on.

William Shakespeare

#22. I think it's funny how life can lead you down certain paths which you wouldn't have taken otherwise.

Giovanna Fletcher

#23. In the end, everything happens for a reason. Paths are meant to be crossed for a higher purpose than what we realize at the moment. Life for everyone goes on. This is just a fork in the road that has taken me for a slight detour. Tomorrow I'll pick up a new map and set my sights on a new direction.

A.M. Willard

#24. There are some things that must be done quickly or not at all. If someone asks you if you love them you cannot hesitate. There are some paths that must be taken at speed.

Mark Lawrence

#25. The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.

William Galston