"Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable."

Regret, Acceptance, Past, Pain

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"Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable."

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"A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Regret, Truth, Word, Life

"Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Regret, Reflection, Life, Sadness

"The way of sin is physical death of soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Sin, Physical, Death, Soul

"You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn't. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine. It never has been."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, World, Misery, Question

"It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Regret, Sadness, Loss, Impact

"You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Regret, Sleep, Peace, Mind

"All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'."

Fredrik Backman, Swedish Author

Regret, Time, Relationship, Word

"Sometimes you do not like the situation. But you have to endure for awhile."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Situation, Patience, Strength

"There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Regret, War, Service, Reality

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"Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next."

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"Becky --" he begins, and there's a tiny intake of breath around the churchyard. "Will you--" "Yes! Yeee-esssss!" I hear the joyful sound ripping through the churchyard before I even realize I've opened my mouth. I'm so charged up with emotion, my voice doesn't even sound like mine. In fact, it sounds more like...Mum.I don't believe it."

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"Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand."

Isolation

"Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself."

Social

"We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed."

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