"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified."

Regret, Wishes

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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

"I...will never...regret you."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

Regret, Love, Emotion, Promise

"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 recollections bring out our joyful smiles, but hardly make us chortle or guffaw; our recollections often leave imprints on our faces that show our regrets, but they hardly produce sounds that echo the depth of those regrets."

Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Cameroonian Author

Regret, Memory, Joy, Emotion

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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."

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

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

"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."

"I...will never...regret you."

"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."

"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."

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

"Our recollections bring out our joyful smiles, but hardly make us chortle or guffaw; our recollections often leave imprints on our faces that show our regrets, but they hardly produce sounds that echo the depth of those regrets."

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"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."

"The gods help them that help themselves."

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."

"Example is the best precept."

"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin."

"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."

"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters."