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Regret Quotes
"Sudden acquaintance brings repentance."
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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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"I had this dream about you last night. We were still married. I was giving you a haircut, like I always did, being careful to trim around the scar on the back of your head. I'm sorry I sometimes forgot it and left you with a bald spot. And, I'm sorry we didn't work out. But you look pretty happy on Instagram."
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"When a person is devastated, it coneys that the individual is regretting for his or her mistakes."
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"Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable."
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"It is foolish to regret anything form one's past."
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"Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me."
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"What haunts me far more than anything I've ever done are the things I haven't done."
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"Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction."
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"I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late."
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"No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future."
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"It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying."
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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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"I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart."
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"People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long."
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"I am so filled with wrong I don't remember what right is."
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"Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do."
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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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"She disliked him more for having mastered her inner will. How dared he say that he would love her still, even though she shook him off with contempt? She wished she had spoken more - stronger. Sharp, decisive speeches came thronging to her mind, now that it was too late to utter them. The deep impression made by the interview was like that of a horror in a dream; that will not leave the room although we waken up, and rub our eyes, and force a stiff rigid smile upon our lips. It is there - there, cowering and gibbering, with fixed ghastly eyes, in some corner of the chamber, listening to hear whether we dare to breathe of its presence to anyone. And we dare not; poor cowards that we are!"
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"And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them."
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"Oh, had I, weak and faint of speech, words to teach my fellow-creatures the beauty and capabilities of man's mind; could I, or could one more fortunate, breathe the magic word which would reveal to all the power, which we all possess, to turn evil to good, foul to fair; then vice and pain would desert the new-born world!It is not thus: the wise have taught, the good suffered for us; we are still the same; and still our own bitter experience and heart-breaking regrets teach us to sympathize too feelingly with a tale like this."
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"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."
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"The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. 'You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I've given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine."
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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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"Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel."
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"Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on."
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"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."
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"Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said."
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"Crashing through windows I thought were open doors. Apologizing for the mess. Rationalizing my behavior in metaphors you'll simply never understand. Learning to accept defeat. Watching you walk away from me, from us, from all of this, using every door I missed. Begging, 'Please don't leave me now, I killed those boys to make you love me."
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"Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.Tick, tick, tick."
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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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"How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it."
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"The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older."
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"I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely."
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"You deserve a longer letter than this, but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve."
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"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself - my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."
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