Best 5 quotes in «lost opportunity quotes» category

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

…I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s what part of it means to be alive. But inside our heads — at least that’s where I imagine it — there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let fresh air in, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live for ever in your own private library.

The wind has toppled the telescope over onto the lawn: So much for stars. Your brief shot at the universe, gone.

A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.