"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."

Regret, Deeds, Memory, Remorse, Repentance

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"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."

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

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

"Sudden acquaintance brings repentance."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The future is just wasted on some people."

Explore more quotes by Gilbert Parker

"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."

"He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever."

"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."

"It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur."

"There is no influence like the influence of habit."

"For when a child is born the mother also is born again."

"It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them."

"War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle."

"The real business of life is trying to understand each other."

"But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave."