Regret Quotes - Page 32

• For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Hate, Grief, Fire

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• You just promised me eternity, you know. I can make you live to regret it.

  Tina St. John

  Eternity, Knows, I Can

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• Regret is just a waste of time for fools.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Waste, Fool, Wasting Time

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• There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

  Alain de Botton

  Loss, Choices, Return

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

  Linda Pastan

  Pain, Way, Taught

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• What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

  Louise Penny

  People, Done, Answers

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• There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

  Jonathan Larson

  Destiny, Past, Goal

  "Rent". Musical by Jonathan Larson, 1996.

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• And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sunset, Dragons, Wind

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

  Alain de Botton

  Opportunity, Allowance, Conversation

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.123, Pan Macmillan

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• Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Companion, Tiresome

  Richard Paul Evans (2007). “The Gift: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

  Mitch Albom

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Captains

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• No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

  Charles Dickens

  Opportunity, Space, Christmas Carol

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1244, e-artnow

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• We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Mean, Affection, Kind

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• I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.

  Reif Larsen

  Italian, Thinking, Sound

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.23, Penguin

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• I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.

  P. D. James

  Writing, Men, Years

  P. D. James (2008). “The Children of Men”, p.124, Faber & Faber

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• We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Night, Giving, Answers

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• ...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

  S. E. Hinton

  S. E. Hinton (2010). “Hawkes Harbor”, p.92, Macmillan

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• I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Love You, Sleep, Drizzt Do Urden

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• For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Father, Journey

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• Stop. I don't do you favors, Alec. I do things for you because - well, why do you think I do them?" Something rose up in Alec's throat, cutting off his response. It was always like this when he was with Magnus. It was as if there were a bubble of pain or regret that lived inside his heart, and when he wanted to say something, anything, that seemed meaningful or true, it rose up and choked off his words. "I need to get back to the ship," he said, finally.

  Cassandra Clare

  Meaningful, Pain, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.834, Simon and Schuster

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• He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

  Joseph Heller

  Sick, Lust, Mesmerized

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm... I'm so in love with you that I can't even stand it! Sasuke! Stay with me, and I'll never let you regret it! We'll have fun every day, and... And you'll be happy! I'll make sure of it! I'll do anything for you, Sasuke! Just, please... Please, please don't go! I'll even help you take revenge! I mean, I'll manage it somehow, so... So please... Stay with me.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Fun, Revenge, Love You

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• I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.

  James Van Praagh

  Dream, Looks

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• I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

  Alan Moore

  Shadow, Steps, Compromise

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• What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids.

  Nick Hornby

  Hate, Glimpse, Looks

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