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

Regret, World, Mistake, Opportunity, Humor

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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

"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 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

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"There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature."

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"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."

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"And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."

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"In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant."

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"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

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"I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb."

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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."

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

"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."

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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."

"There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature."

"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."

"And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."

"In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant."

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

"This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night."

"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."

"I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb."