Quotes About Regret
There was a man who killed a buffalo bull to no purpose, only he wanted the blood on his hands.
~ N. Scott Momaday
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A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly of the other races and civilization of the world, who left his own country in the West to set up a home among them in the East, and was ruined as a result, paying dearly for his foolish mistake. His life smashed to pieces by the barbarians surrounding him.
~ Nadeem Aslam
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Not even God can change the past.
~ Nadeem Aslam
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How easy it is to create ghosts, he thinks as he begins to die a minute later, feeling his mind closing chamber by chamber, the memory of Naheed contained in each one. And despite it all it means much to have been loved. Just before the world vanishes, a hope surfaces in him that this wasn't necessarily everything, that he will return somehow. His arm rises, remembering when it used to be a wing.
~ Nadeem Aslam
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I want you to know that even though Ron forgave me, it does not mean that he forgot what I did. His forgiveness was a gift that I did not deserve or earn. However, I did need to earn his trust.
~ Nancy C. Anderson
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Turn, turn, Jack willed the boy... Thorgil, thought Jack. He missed her - oh, heavens, how he had missed her! - and yet he hadn't been aware of it till now.
~ Nancy Farmer
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You'd better tell me about that lie, Giles, said the old man, massaging his forehead. From all the sin you keep going on about, I'm sure it's going to be spectacular.
~ Nancy Farmer
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Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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Oh my past! It's such a long time ago now.
~ Nancy Mitford
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Oh what a pity it happens to be Davey's day for getting drunk. I long to tell him, he will be so much interested.
~ Nancy Mitford
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I can't change the past so why does it still bother me? -Malledy
~ Nancy Richardson Fischer
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Dear Thomas, on his knees to me, pleading. And his pain smote me to the core of my heart, and I saw: Mother of misery, I had done this to him. Cernunnos had tried to warn me. I was not whole, not ready, he had said. Ongwynn had tried to warn me. All powers above and below, even the sweet lady mother of us all, had tried. This moment was the one that Lady water had tried to show me…. Yet I whispered, "I cannot.
~ Nancy Springer
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But I never forgot Florence. And now, my wife has passed away, and I wondered if it was possible that Florence still remembered me as I remember her.
~ Nancy Warren
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But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.
~ Nancy Werlin
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For a moment... I might have been the daughter she'd hoped for...she might have been my teacher and my guide...We might never have been enemies at all.
~ Naomi Novik
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Rich meant that this room with three beds and a table and chairs and a window filled with glass was something to say sorry for.
~ Naomi Novik
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I'm sorry," I said, feeling stupid in the way I'm sorry always feels stupid when you mean it.
~ Naomi Novik
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And so does pity lead straight to disaster.
~ Naomi Novik
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But my father's irritation told me otherwise. I had been a disappointment to him from the beginning, my mother having taken an excessive number of years to produce me, and shortly afterwards miscarrying the overdue son and dying with him.
~ Naomi Novik
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I'm sorry, I said, feeling stupid in the way I'm sorry always feel stupid when you mean it.
~ Naomi Novik
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Wat heb je nú weer gedaan, stommeling? - De Draak
~ Naomi Novik
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To forgive ourselves for what we didn't do Replay a scene over and over in mind Change it change Apologizing to our own story handful of soil I could have planted something better here To walk without remembering another walk To wash off the hoped of a darkened day Make a new one
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
~ Carl Sandburg
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Alguien dijo una vez que en el momento en que te paras a pensar si quieres a alguien. Ya has dejado de quererle para siempre.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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