"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."

Regret, Possibility, Hope, Emotion

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"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."

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"The sadness sorrow is to desire death while you have life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Why are we occupied with material wealth than spiritual nourishment?"

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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."

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

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Regret, Life, Misery, Death, Question

"The writer's life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,Nothing goes right; we would and we would not."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Whenever we lose time, we are actually losing our life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Time lost can never be regained."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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Explore more quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"

Philosophy

"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

Talent

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Earth

"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

Creativity

"When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed."

Creativity

"I thought the worst of everyone."

Behavior

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

Earth

"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

War

"The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well."

Fate

"I have no doubt that they'll tell you a lot of kind things about me when my back is turned. They may not have been behind the door when God passed out the pretty faces, but Heaven only knows where they were when He divided up the gratitude."

Behavior