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Regret Quotes


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


"Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world's foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world's foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it. Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don't hang yourself, you'll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy."


"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."


"Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world at one time. Now I am melancholy mad, what with drinking and one thing and another."


"Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel."


"Those who waste time eventually become wasted."


"The insanity of shameful desires!"


"What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don't believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place."


"You deserve a longer letter than this, but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve."


"Too often we give up due to temporal challenge."


"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."



"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 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."


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


"We all have faced fearful times."


"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."


"How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!"



"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."


"If there's anything worse in this world than a bad batch of babi guling, it's hindsight."
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