"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."

Regret, World, Mistake, Opportunity, Humor

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"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."

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"Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence."

Anais Nin, American Author

Regret, Confidence, Life, Choice

"Wasting and losing time is equivalent to wasting and losing your life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Regret, Time, Waste, Life, Loss

"Sudden acquaintance brings repentance."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Regret, Choice, Consequence, Reflection

"Why compare yourself to others? You never know what people have endured to get where they are."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Comparison, Endurance, Strength, Life

"What matter most is not the sin. The moment of repentance: go and sin no more."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Matter, Sin, Repentance, Moment

"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

"I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Regret, Relationship, Pain, Self

"Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Truth, Denial, Divine

"The living dead do things without putting life into it."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Regret, Living, Life, Spirit

"The future is just wasted on some people."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Regret, Future, Waste, Potential

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"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."

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"Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there."

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"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

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"If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female."

Society

"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Age

"There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope."

Art

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

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"Hatred is blind, as well as love."

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