Irreparable Quotes

• Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Past, Hands, Steps

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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• Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

  Edward Hoagland

  Life, Divorce, Men

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Loss, Choices, May

  Henry Hardy, Isaiah Berlin (2016). “The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism”, p.11, Brookings Institution Press

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• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Atheism, Habit

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Sleep, Past, Opportunity

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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• The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Memories, Past

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• To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

  Jean Racine

  Jean Racine (1960). “Five Plays”

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• Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

  Edward Gibbon

  Errors, Useless, Repentance

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Moving, Past, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Together, Pieces, Relentless

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• Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Attitude, Soul, Poverty

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• Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Irreparable Harm, Shining, Months

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• The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

  Langdon Winner

  Country, Civilization, Cities

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• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Thinking, Race

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• Nothing is irreparable in politics.

  Jean Anouilh

  Politics, Politician

  Jean Anouilh (1955). “The Lark”

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• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

  Carl Levin

  Mistake, Damage Is Done, Medical

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• There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

  James Frey

  Damage, Return

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.165, Anchor

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• When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.

  Tammara Webber

  Irreparable Harm, Finding Yourself, Lines

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.491, Tammara Webber

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• Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly prosper. All creativity, growth, imagination, nurturing - All possibilities are born within the female womb of the Devine Feminine. To deny Her a rightful place, either within ourselves or in the world in which we live, is to do irreparable harm and endure the loss of countless joys.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Creativity, Loss

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• I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

  Richard Cobden

  Government, India, Emergencies

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.392

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• She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm.

  Marcia Muller

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Marcia Muller (2011). “The McCone Files”, p.303, AudioGO

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• For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Law, Sorrow

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.83

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• With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

  Yehuda Berg

  Irreparable Harm, Toxic Waste, Climate

  "What the @#$% is Going On?" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2010.

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• Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

  Gail Carriger

  Irreparable Harm, Causes, Harm

  Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Loss, Perfect, Choices

  Isaiah Berlin (2012). “The Proper Study Of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays”, p.11, Random House

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