Regret Quotes - Page 40

• Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Long, People

  "The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

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• You’ll never regret being a good friend.

  Emily Giffin

  Good Friend, Never Regret, Being A Good Friend

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.159, Macmillan

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• You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

  Darren Shan

  Suicide, Dream, Thinking

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• In our life there are moments when we have to move forward...Regardless of how others may see us. Even if I make a mistake, I wont regret it!

  Inio Asano

  Mistake, Moving, May

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• Touch her,” he said in Scott’s ear, his voice low and threatening, “and it’ll be the biggest regret of your life.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Voice, Ears, Threatening

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.441, Simon and Schuster

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• It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Loss, Sin, Pleasure

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• It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Memories, Crazy, Painful

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.90, Seven Stories Press

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• I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.

  Margaret George

  Sorrow, Sometimes, Realist

  Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.223, Pan Macmillan

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• Regret; The saddest word in the English language.

  Tonya Hurley

  Language, English Language, Saddest

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• I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Doe, Said

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Sourcery: (Discworld Novel 5)”, p.15, Random House

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• She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Asking, Wonder, Failing

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• If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Breakup, Love You, Passion

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

  Stephen King

  Feelings, Guilt, Desert

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.

  David Nicholls

  Hate, Thinking, Hair

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• We all know of people who thought they could to it (whatever “it” is) tomorrow. We have all procrastinated on such a way, and often to our personal regret. It happens time and again, putting off things that we convince ourselves might be better, more meaningful, more appropriate for another time. So often that better time either never comes or really isn’t better or more appropriate after all. And then, sadly, the window of opportunity -to do something great- closes.

  Tim Tebow

  Meaningful, Opportunity, People

  Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker (2011). “Through My Eyes”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• My only mistake was in waiting too long to be rid of you", Adri said, running the washcloth between her fingers. "Believe me, Cinder. You are a sacrifice I will never regret.

  Marissa Meyer

  Running, Mistake, Believe

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• The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

  Edward Gorey

  Suicide, Fall, Moon

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• This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.

  Sarah Dessen

  Light, Doors, Leaving

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.197, Penguin

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• I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

  John Lennon

  New York, Air, Dying

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• Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.

  Taylor Swift

  Morning, Dad, Teenager

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• It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.

  Paul Arden

  Done, Havens

  "Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite". Book by Paul Arden, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.

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• It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn’t imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grateful, Different, Imagine

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• Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.

  Philip Pullman

  Kindness, Compassion, Years

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

  Joseph Campbell

  War, Ignorance, Illumination

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

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• The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Mistake, People, Growth

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