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

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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

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"Don't cry over the shots you've missed, weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"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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"When shall I cease to regret you! When learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh! Happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?"

Jane Austen, British 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

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"When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier.""

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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

"Don't cry over the shots you've missed, weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!"

"Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better."

"You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do."

"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."

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

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

"When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier.""

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"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."

"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."

"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."

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