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Regret Quotes
"When a person is devastated, it coneys that the individual is regretting for his or her mistakes."
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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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"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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"That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight."
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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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"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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"What haunts me far more than anything I've ever done are the things I haven't done."
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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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"Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction."
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"I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart."
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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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"It is foolish to regret anything form one's past."
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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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"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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"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long."
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"Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on."
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"He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.'Sorry,' Persephone suggested.'Pardon?'She murmured, 'You should say sorry when you kill something.'It took him a moment to realize she meant the rose. 'It was dying anyway.''Dying and dead are different words.'Shamed, Adam muttered an apology...."
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"No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future."
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"I am so filled with wrong I don't remember what right is."
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"Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets."
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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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"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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"How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it."
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"The thing I regret the most is that I cannot help everyone who really needs it."
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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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"What matter most is not the sin. The moment of repentance: go and sin no more."
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