"I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening."

Regret, Memory, Dream, Change

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"I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening."

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"How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Regret, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do."

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

Regret, Opportunity, Action, Courage

"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

"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

Regret, Opportunity, Action, Chance

"Regret isn't real,' Tuck said. 'It's something invented to punish ourselves."

Robin Bielman, American Novelist

Regret, Forgiveness, Healing, Acceptance

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

Sophie Kinsella, British Author

Regret, Acceptance, Past, Pain

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Past, Yesterday, Sorrow

"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

Regret, Disappointment, Life, Action

"Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, American Writer

Regret, Luck, Awareness, 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

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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

Society

"When somebody is angry with us we draw a halo around his or her head in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well we don't know! We know though that when we draw a halo around a person suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us."

Empathy

"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."

World

"I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence."

Violence

"And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it."

God

"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it."

Love

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!"

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"How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!"

"Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do."

"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!"

"Regret isn't real,' Tuck said. 'It's something invented to punish ourselves."

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

"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."

"Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner."

"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."

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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

"I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity."

"Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends."

"Whatever gets you through the night."

"When somebody is angry with us we draw a halo around his or her head in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well we don't know! We know though that when we draw a halo around a person suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us."

"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."

"I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence."

"And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it."

"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it."

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!"