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Regret Quotes


"The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older."


"Sorrow teaches more lessons than laughter."


"I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore."


"The thing I regret the most is that I cannot help everyone who really needs it."


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


"The break of a family is a break of society."



"I have done things that are memorable to me. Some of them had brought sadness instantly to me, and others happiness. But I wished I had not made them in the first place, even more for the joyful ones. For they bring pain in me, as what have had happened there will be a memory, and will always stay as one. We can never relive those times, and that is what's haunting me, and brings pain in me..."


"There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze."


"There are no regrets in life, only experiences. Every experience helps us to be what we can be."


"He could swear he did not look back, could not-by any optical chance, or in any prism-have seen her physically as he walked away; and yet, with dreadful distinction, he retained forever a composite picture of her standing where he left her. The picture-which penetrated him, through an eye in the back of his head, through his vitreous spinal canal, and could never be lived down, never-consisted of a selection and blend of such random images and expressions of hers that had affected him with a pang of intolerable remorse at various moments in the past."


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


"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!"


"Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches."


"Those who waste time eventually become wasted."


"Those who die with their music still on their tongues unsung are trying to say "God had made a deal with the wrong customer like me"."


"God is the God of multiplication and a careless attitude toward the business of the kingdom bring regret to Him."


"The fall of the nation, there is no;Faithfulness, Kindness and Knowledge of God in your sacred land."


"Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like different things, but Ralph thought they were really all the same thing: the faint, sorrowing voices of people who had found themselves written out of the script in the middle of the second act while they were still learning their lines for the third, people who had been unceremoniously hauled off before their work was done or their obligations fulfilled, people whose only crime had been to be born in the Random... and to have caught the eye of the madman with the rusty scalpel."


"There is no competition in work. Many a man wants glory but fails to work."


"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."


"We all have faced fearful times."


"Reckless youth makes rueful age."


"It is foolishness to want what never was or will never will be, lament the passage of time, and live in fearfulness of an uncertain future. The moods generated by regret including depression and self-loathing congeal in our sentient consciousness creating the painful landscape of the self."


"Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,trying to revise the bitter memory of the past."
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