"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister."

Regret, Habit, Christ, Time

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"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister."

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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

"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 regrets want to bring back many things we leave behind."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Regret, Past, Memory, Desire

"For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Regret, Death, Word, Truth

"But it seems she'd wanted children after all, because when she was told she'd been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Regret, Motherhood, Choice, Emotion

Explore more quotes by William Faulkner

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

Language, Word, Love, Truth, Meaning

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."

Creation, Writing, Creativity, Action, Improvement

"Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves."

Gender, Women, Evil, Trust, Men

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

Attitude, Love, Work, Day, Man

"What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe."

Existence, Life, End, Universe, Legacy

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."

Writing, Learning, Discipline, Creativity

"Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world."

Fear, Mind, Personality, World

"If a story is in you, it has to come out."

Writing, Story, Expression, Creativity, Truth

"Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing."

Writing, Action, Art, Process

"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."

Creativity, Learning, Writing, Art, Passion