Regret Quotes - Page 37

• We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

  Mitch Albom

  Should Have, Forgiving, Needs

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.166, Broadway Books

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• ...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Daughter, Father

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• Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.

  Emily Giffin

  Scary, Feelings, Facts

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.167, Macmillan

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• let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Angel, Loss

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• the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance

  Helen Rowland

  Mistake, Chance, Commit

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• Thank you for bringing me to ThunderClan. Tell Bluestar I have always been grateful for the home she gave me. This is a good place to die. I only regret that I will miss watching you become what StarClan has destined you to be.

  Erin Hunter

  Grateful, Home, Missing

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• We didn't know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn't make any difference. The ones who hurry and the ones who take their time all end up in the same place. Just don't have any regrets. No regrets.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Differences, Ends, Wells

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• But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Two, Numbers, Number 2

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• Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Interesting, Done

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• ʺYour hair was beautiful too. All of you. You were amazing when we first met, and somehow, inexplicably, youʹve come even farther. Youʹve always been pure, raw energy, and now you control it. Youʹre the most amazing woman Iʹve ever met, and Iʹm glad to have had that love for you in my life. I regret losing it.ʺ He grew pensive. ʺI would give anything—anything—in the world to go back and change history. To run into your arms after Lissa brought me back. To have a life with you. Itʹs too late, of course, but Iʹve accepted it.ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Running, Hair

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• When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret

  Paulo Coelho

  Keys, Doors, Looks

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• I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Father, Grieving, Should Have

  Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Partner: Jane Eyre & Anna Karenina”, p.50, Random House

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• Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.

  Samuel Beckett

  Girl, Grief, Boys

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Watt”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.

  Rachel Vincent

  Apology, Broken, Lost

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• She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Husband, Sunset

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• People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Life Is Too Short, Long, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.175, Bantam

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• When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Feelings, Shells

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  World, Namesake, Blanket

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Apr 11, 2011

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• Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.

  Judy Blundell

  Lying, Heart, Way

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• Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Morning, Drinking, Wine

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.76, Bantam

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• She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.

  Lisi Harrison

  Running, Thousand

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• ... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Afterlife, Mourning, Heaven

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• foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

  Julie Garwood

  Mean, Men, Foolish Man

  Julie Garwood (2011). “Gentle Warrior”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

  Lisa See

  Motivational, Moments, That Moment

  Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.99, A&C Black

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• The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :"Better of Dead" Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat "boo!

  Gayle Forman

  Dream, Sleep, Kissing

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