“Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.”

“I could have been a sailor, could have been a cook,
A real live lover, could have been a book,
I could have been a signpost, could have been a clock,
As simple as a kettle, steady as a rock.
I could be here and now,
I would be, I should be, but how?
I could have been one of these things first.”

“Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind”

“I wish sometimes that I just didn't have to think about any of this, and could drone away my life. It would be easier.”

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”

“I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.”

“I am not the type of person who thinks in terms of "if only" or "could have, would have, should have". It is what it is and everything happens for a reason. When a person thinks "if only I would have known such and such" it shows a certain amount of fear or lack of trust that everything is as it should be. I try to always do my best and if I look back and think I didn't do my best, then that is the only thing I acknowledge and then try to change. One of my favorite expressions is, "Everything is okay in the end and if it's not okay, it's not the end."”

“I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.”

“Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.”

“Would you be friends with me if I didn't have an arsehole?”