Top 100 You Never Had Quotes
#1. You cannot miss what you never had, but you can miss forever the man you loved and lost.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#2. You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde
#3. You're afraid, Nana, she might have said. You're afraid that I might find the happiness you never had. And you don't want me to be happy. You don't want a good life for me. You're the one with the wretched heart.
Khaled Hosseini
#4. You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.
Cynthia Heimel
#5. She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged.
Stephen King
#6. If you stay on the sidelines of the here and now then your future will only ever be a pale version of a dream you never had the courage to experience.
Amanda Howells
#7. You are nothing but a doll. Nothing but a doll
doll
doll! You care for nothing. You are stuffed with sawdust. You never had a heart. Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#8. Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."
Olga Masters
#9. When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.
Lesley Manville
#10. How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.
Elvis Presley
#11. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
Ernest Hemingway,
#12. If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
I. F. Stone
#13. The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it's the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision.
Kenneth Eade
#14. But you must have all the things you never had of life and make of immortality a junk shop in which both of us become grotesque.
Anne Rice
#15. You never had me, Keaton, but I always had you.
Courtney Lane
#16. I am Valentine's son. Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern. You never had any right to that name. You're a ghost. And a pretender.
Cassandra Clare
#17. It's bad enough weeping for the loss of a love you once had. Don't be after weeping for the loss of a love you never had at all.
Graham Masterton
#18. If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.
Lisa Alther
#19. Darkness will come knocking. It will offer everything you never had. But its gift is just a cheap knockoff of something it cannot be. Never accept the hand of the Beast.
C.M. Rayne
#20. They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
Khaled Hosseini
#21. Laughing. A kind of laugh like every person you never had to know but did. You knew them. Knew them like the sound of someone moving furniture around the apartment above you. Simply through movement. Whole lives lived in movement and elsewhere.
Corey Zeller
#22. If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
Douglas Horton
#23. You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.
Rickey Henderson
#24. Does veganism require a "sacrifice"? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.
Gary L. Francione
#25. Are you alright?" he asked warily. "Sure," I lied as I turned and headed for the stairs. So softly that only a werewolf could hear, I added, "You can't lose what you never had.
Kathleen Peacock
#26. Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.
Richard Rodriguez
#27. How can you so desperately miss something you never had in the first place?
Ted Michael
#28. Then it comes to him - how you can't return to a place you've never been to, can't recapture what you never had. The chances you miss stay missed forever.
Paul Russell
#29. Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.
Ric Ocasek
#30. Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
William Hazlitt
#31. If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'
Mark Zuckerberg
#32. I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It's like being a slave all your life, then learning one day that you never had a master, and returning to work all the same.
Tom Rachman
#33. No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
Jeannette Walls
#36. It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.
Deb Caletti
#37. You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
Aly Raisman
#38. What's it like to go looking for your soul, only to learn you never had one to begin with?
Barry Lyga
#39. A brick could be used to replace the brother you never had. Well, it's only a possibility, but you probably won't like it, because as soon as your parents gain another child, you'll quickly find out that you were only their favorite child because you were their only child.
Jarod Kintz
#40. You never had to fight for me to begin with. I am yours and have been from the moment I saw you
Aimee Carter
#41. I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. maybe it had seen places you never had, been rerouted and passed through so many strange hands, but still somehow found its way back to you, all before the day even began.
Sarah Dessen
#42. Sometimes real troubles give you strength you never had before." -Lucio-
Fausto Brizzi
#43. Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.
Judith Guest
#44. You're mine. The minute I told you to spread your legs and you did it, you were mine. When I told you to beg for it and you did, you were mine. When you put your hands behind your back without being told, I owned you. You never had to say a word. You're a natural submissive.
C.D. Reiss
#45. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it. Like you breathe. Now doesn't it just astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing? And you are doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it?
Allan Watts
#46. To find the peace you never had you will need to do the one fearful thing that you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. The nice thing about having a deeply weird, highly opinionated friend was that you never had to be the centre of attention if you didn't want to be. The
Alexis Hall
#48. You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.
Ellen Page
#49. You've got to give something you never gave to get something you never had ...
Ray Hunt
#50. Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.
Sharyn McCrumb
#51. The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
Robin Williams
#52. It's hard to miss something you never had.
Eileen Cook
#53. In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.
Ozzy Osbourne
#54. You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.
Joni Rodgers
#55. What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?
Michelle Shocked
#56. If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.
Napoleon Hill
#57. I will not die. I will not break. I will not move. Face it. You'll go to your grave knowing you never had what it took to stop me.
Henry Rollins
#58. What happens to the relationship you never had with your mother-in-law when your husband dies?
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#59. I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#60. The thing about that singles apartment is you never had to clean it up ... until the day you got the security deposit back. You're arguing with the landlord ... 'No sir, the back door was missing when we moved in here! The pizzas were always on the ceiling!'
Jeff Foxworthy
#61. If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. If you were never sad, you would not know how it feels to be happy. If you never had negative thoughts, you would not learn the power of positive thinking. You have to experience life to understand life.
Jeekeshen Chinnappen
#62. And because his love for you never had a beginning, it can have no end.
John Piper
#63. When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.
I. F. Stone
#65. I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.
Herbie Mann
#66. It's impossible for you to lose me ... because you never had me.
Drake
#69. You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.
Umberto Eco
#70. A bit of research can save you hours, days of time correcting mistakes that you never had to make in the first place.
John Patrick Hickey
#71. But ... " Both men looked over inquiringly when Maximus spoke. "But I never asked you to help me with Noakes."
Makepeace nodded, his expression grave. "You didn't have to."
"You never had to," St. John concurred.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#72. Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.
Charles Bukowski
#73. It really is a pathetic thing. To mourn a past you never had. Don't you think?
Sunjeev Sahota
#74. Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
Amy Tan
#75. True love meant you could laugh at mistakes. True love meant you could whisper secrets. True love meant you never had to dance alone.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#76. Hey...kid," he (Adam) said, "can...I...come....in?"
You never had to ask before," she (Phoebe) sad, holding the screen open for him.
-Kiss of Life page 257
We need...to be...invited," he said.
Dan Waters
#77. You can't lose what you never had, you cant keep what's not yours, and you can't hold on to something that doesn't want to stay.
Damon Suede
#78. Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had.
Bryant McGill
#79. Gurney's a romantic," the Duke growled. This talk of killing suddenly disturbed him, coming from his son. "I'd sooner you never had to kill ... but if the need arises, you do it however you can - tip or edge." He looked up at the skylight, on which the rain was drumming.
Frank Herbert
#80. A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.
Cassandra Clare
#81. Better not to remember. Better not to know. You can't mourn what you never had.
Rick Yancey
#82. Have you never had cake before?' he asks me.
I get nervous. Is cake a really human thing? Does everybody eat it? Would it show me up as a stranger if I say no?
Laura Dockrill
#83. Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.
Shannon L. Alder
#84. You Can't Lose Something You Never Had
Kate Hudson
#86. Have you ever loved something so much that you never had to even think about whether you did or not? That's how I love him.
R. YS Perez
#87. Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#88. How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?
Robert Galbraith
#89. I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement ... I'm a physical actor.
Daniel Logan
#90. When you've had a near-death experience, your life is never the same. A divine fire is supernaturally transferred into your soul, to tell everyone about your encounter. This in itself, is a miracle. As such, I am on a mission to rid hell of its future recruits.
Josephine Akhagbeme
#91. I could not have done anymore, I had pushed myself to a limit that I had never touched before and that's definitely going to change you - than going out and doing what you do in practice every day.
Elvis Stojko
#92. As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.
Jeanette Winterson
#93. His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be around anymore.
Jean Ferris
#94. You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.
Michael Ende
#95. People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
Bobby Bowden
#96. I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
Alan Bennett
#97. Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.
Elton John
#98. If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.
Robin Hoyle
#99. Shakespeare used 17,677 words in his writings, of which at least one-tenth had never been used before. Imagine if every tenth word you wrote were original. It is a staggering display of ingenuity. But
Bill Bryson
#100. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.
Edward Ruscha
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