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“If only…the saddest words in the English language.”
― Kristan Higgins, My One and Only

“We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.”
― Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

“When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness…In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth.”
― Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse

“He sighed and knew that life was full of ‘if only’ for everyone”
― Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho

“I know girls aren't supposed to tell, but I've got to tell—just in case you should fail to love me because you never knew how much I loved you. I want not to have to say later—I wish I'd told him.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“And I thought, rolling my head to and fro between my hands in anguish, oh if only it could have worked somehow for us two.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“The past is full of if-onlys and they're all bullshit.”
― Michael Rutger, The Anomaly

“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Ludens experienced, as an extra pain, an intimation of the happiness he might have felt in such a place.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Yours till submarines have screen doors.”
― Carole Geithner, If Only

“If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality,if only...however sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.”
― Dalal Gabara

“They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“I’ve suppressed my aspirations to forget all rationality and let the moment explain everything, for nothing to be said and everything understood. If only I knew how to let these feelings out.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda, Here & After

“Louise was a jewel locked away; and after the first 'if only' period had passed and Clement had got used to 'Mrs Anderson', he felt that his love for her had not faded, but had suffered a sea change into something special and unique, causing a special and unique and much valued, pain.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Here was another 'if only' — if only he had acted quickly, spontaneously, throwing 'tact' and 'good form' to the winds. Just then she had needed him, and he had failed. This bitter reflection positively, for a time, hindered his strange friendship with Louise, he avoided her almost to the point of boorishness, almost deliberately seeming to have lost his interest and his affection. The pain of his 'might have been' led him instinctively to devalue his loss, make it not a loss but something inconceivable and nil.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“If at that moment Clement had caught sight of the dog and had managed to capture him, the fates of a number of people in this story would have been entirely different. Such is the vast play of chance in human lives.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Beyond her declaration of love she could not see. But as she rehearsed the intensity of her passion she thought that he must, when the time came, respond. The desire to, at the right time, tell him became, as the years moved forward toward that time, increasingly painful, like a poisoned wound that must heal itself by breaking open. She now thought in anguish of the times, the recent times, when she could have told him, and had been afraid to, and had clumsily withdrawn, when she could have attracted him and drawn his attention to her. When she had watched over him when he was sleeping in the sedan-chair and could have wakened him with a kiss. If only she had let him know, then she could more easily have borne his not preferring her. He was ready to fall in love — and if he had known — he must have loved her — if he had known how much she loved him. The pain of this loss burnt her in every waking moment, that awful 'if only'. She had lost him, and lost him through her own fault. There were no more pleasures now in life.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Ludens felt again that special curious anguish caused by glimpses of a happiness he would have felt if only things were different — which could be different, perhaps could easily be different — but somehow maddeningly were not.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Witnessing a sorry state of affairs when one is not in power is by no means a monotone, monochromatic activity. It involves what Foucault once called a "relentless erudition," scouring alternative sources, exhuming buried documents, reviving forgotten (or abandoned) histories.”
― Edward Said

“If only is a bottomless well where wishes don’t come true”
― Amanda Bouchet, Heart on Fire

“A drunk [once] said to me, "Drugs and alcohol are not our problem, reality is our problem; drugs and alcohol are our solution to that problem." [...]

Aren't we all, in one way or another, trying to find a solution to the problem of reality? If I get this job, this girl, this guy, these shoes. If I pass this exam, eat this pizza, drink this booze, go on this holiday. [...] Isn't there always some kind of condition to contentment? Isn't it always placed in the future, wrapped up in some object, either physical or ideological?”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“If this was a romance novel, we'd kiss. That's what always happens--- the gumptious heroine meets her match in the first chapter. A meet-cute. Something memorable. Remarkable. In old Harlequins, we'd be intimate by page one hundred, and a part of me intimately wanted to know what it felt like to unbutton this stranger's shirt. To let go of this plot and just fall headfirst into someone else's.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality, if only...however sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.”
― Dalal Gebara

“If only I knew... If only baby... If only...”
― Anya

“If… if back then in the past, Dia didn’t summon him during that stormy night, and attended the following year’s ball…—

—what kind of future would they have?

When she wondered about such things, it was as if her chest would burst.

In the last 13 years she had lived along with despair, Dia acknowledged that she had indeed ruined her future with her own hands.

However, the sharp pain that ran through her chest—she didn’t feel it for the first time.

…It’s been a long time since that ball.

It felt awkward to walk around while clutching her painful chest everywhere she went.

She wondered if her footsteps of today were still steeped in the blood of that night.

That stormy night…”
― Sakurase Ayaka (桜瀬彩香), 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1　～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～

“My daydreams are so vivid that I really do find it hard to believe that he won't get another chance sometime, and my re-emergence back into my underground journey, or the book I am reading, is ludicrously slow, only achievable once I have forced myself to recognise, sometimes by saying the words under my breath, that the game is over, finished, and will never be played again. But you see, if Winterburn had scored (and why did... ), we would have won 3-1, no question, and retained the Cup we had won the year before;”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“If only that were true, how good would it be.”
― Rolle W., Lores of the Loren: A Peek into the Creatures' Den

“IF ONLY
After days and days
Of the same fate
By now, there should be a million ways
To fix everything, but I can only wait.
They only see the outside of me,
And that’s the only way they decide to judge.
If only I could show them what’s on the inside, but we,
As a group, only decide to hold a grudge.”
― Alex Armoredes, Atom: A Collection of Poems

“[...] Someone else's blood there. If only someone else's flesh and brain and memory. If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry-cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only...”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451