"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."

Regret, Mistake, Life, Opportunity

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"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Sadness, Sorrow, Desire, Death

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Material, Wealth, Spiritual, Values

"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

"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

Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Life

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

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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Explore more quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."

Parenting

"I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing."

Mystery

"She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."

Emotions

"Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?"

Joy

"There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that."

Travel

"I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there."

Emotion

"I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things."

Priorities

"She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life."

Struggle

"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."

Emotions

"I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?"

Aging