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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 the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."
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"I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something."
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"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
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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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"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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"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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"I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful."
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"The only things you regret are the things you don't do."
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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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"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."
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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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"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."
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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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"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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"It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets."
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"I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it,seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?"
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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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"It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that's the sin that can't be forgiven-that I hadn't done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there's no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain-and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world-to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage."
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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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"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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"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."
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"I am haunted by my past and by what I must do to ensure my future."
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"Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly, repent and move on."
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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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"Sudden acquaintance brings repentance."
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"Why should I forget the pastexperience? I can only let go of the pain."
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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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