297 Quotes About What-if

Who would you be if you had somehow avoided every tenacious impediment in the invisible bacterial obstacle course of your daily life? Or what if, through some miracle of science...there was a way to cleanse the detritus that has cumulatively contaminated your genes since before you were even born? Who would you be today? Would you be the same person; the same unique individual? Or would you be something more?

I am becoming better at releasing the “what-ifs” that clog my closets.

It’s fun to think of the what-if. Scary, but fun. It’s like, I thought this door was closed before, but here it is open just the tiniest crack. What if?

He sighed and knew that life was full of ‘if only’ for everyone

Behind each door of what-if lies an unanswerable question that unhinges an infinite Rube Goldberg machine of probabilities. The life we have is the only one we will ever know, and even that with tenuous certainty.

I was never allowed to have any pets. Sometimes I think a puppy might have changed everything.

You'll always be my favourite "What If".

It’s a dangerous game to play what-if with the past.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.