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Regret Quotes
"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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"When a person is devastated, it coneys that the individual is regretting for his or her mistakes."
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"It is foolish to regret anything form one's past."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do."
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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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"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 was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long."
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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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"I am so filled with wrong I don't remember what right is."
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"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."
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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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"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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"Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely."
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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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"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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"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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