"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Regret, Deeds, Tears, Words

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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

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"You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that's what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn't worth what you lost."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Regret, Comparison, Envy, Loss

"The dead person once had a life! This is a misery?"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Life, Misery, Death, Question

"Sadness is a grieve spirit. But Sorrow is refined the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Sadness, Sorrow, Spirit, Soul

"Jay replied to the bird, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, my little bird. I'm sorry for leaving you alone. I'm sorry for hiding you away. Only now do I realize how much I've missed you."

Ilchi Lee, South Korean Author

Regret, Love, Apology, Memory

"One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Regret, Mistake, Reflection, Time

"One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me."

Ian McEwan, British Author

Regret, Correction, Mistake, Conscience

"Regrets are a terrible thing to live with but, if we take a good look at them, some are not regrets at all, they're situations that taught us a valuable lesson. Don't be so hard on yourself it's not a perfect world."

Ron Baratono, American Poet

Regret, Learning, Compassion, Acceptance

"There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Regret, Soul, Chance, Loss

"Our regrets want to bring back many things we leave behind."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Regret, Past, Memory, Desire

"For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Regret, Death, Word, Truth

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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

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"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do."

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"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."

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"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."

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"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done."

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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

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