"The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did."

Regret, Past, Memory, Sorrow

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"The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did."

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Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don't believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"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

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

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

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"The thing I regret the most is that I cannot help everyone who really needs it."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory."

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"Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,' declared Anne. 'I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads."

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"Of course it's better to be good. I know it ism but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it."

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"When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far."

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"You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you."

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"When you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while."

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"What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself."

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