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Regret Quotes
"I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do."
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"I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something."
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"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."
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"Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret."
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"You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do."
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"How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another."
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"I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know. Love remains, but not the old love; its place remains, but it is all wasted away and has lost all strength and substance; recollections are still left, and gratitude; but..."
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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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"You totally ruined my life, you know that?' said Rincewind hotly. 'I could have really made it as a wizard if you hadn't decided to use me as a sort of portable spellbook. I can't remember any other spells, they're all too frightened to stay in the same head as you!"
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"I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful."
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"When shall I cease to regret you! When learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh! Happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?"
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"As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do."
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"Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken."
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"His imagination seemed still to exhaust itself in running, before it tried to leap the ditch. While he mused, the fire burned in other brains. Other hands wrote the books he dreamed about. He freely used his good ideas in conversation, and in letters; and they were straightway wrought into the texture of other men's books, and so lost to him for ever."
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"I am haunted by my past and by what I must do to ensure my future."
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"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."
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"Why should I forget the pastexperience? I can only let go of the pain."
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"The thing I regret the most is that I cannot help everyone who really needs it."
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"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
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"Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches."
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"It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets."
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"Sorrow teaches more lessons than laughter."
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"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."
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"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."
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"She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before."
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"A man without regrets cannot be cured."
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"Why compare yourself to others? You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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"Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!"
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"Don't cry over the shots you've missed, weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!"
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