1.
You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.
John Fante
2.
I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
Edward Gorey
3.
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
4.
What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
Edward Gorey
6.
You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.
Noel Gallagher
7.
He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
Patricia Briggs
8.
But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.
Herman Melville
9.
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.
Simon Newcomb
10.
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
John Steinbeck
11.
I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.
Maria Dahvana Headley