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Might Have Been Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another occupation might have been better.

F.H. Bradley, Carol Keene (1999). “F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings”, Thoemmes

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

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