"I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen."

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"I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen."

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"I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Regret, Loss, Innocence, Memory

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"We are discouraged, when we fail to nourish the soul with its spiritual food."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Whoever hate, harm himself."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"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

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"Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian 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

Regret, Reflection, Life, Sadness

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