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Regret Quotes

"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving."
Erma Bombeck
"If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow"
Jose Saramago
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery"
Dante Alighieri
"There's no lack of opportunity to take a guilt trip, we all do it some time or other"
Jose Saramago
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
Michel de Montaigne
"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent"
Barbara Bush
"You were my everything and all that you did"
Billie Eilish
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
George Bernard Shaw
"Every time I chose to act out a dream, I disfigured it, weakening the memory of another."
Italo Calvino
"Congratulations, you played yourself"
Post Malone
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
Oscar Wilde
"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."
Agatha Christie
"For many, the weight of the past is not what was but rather what wasn’t."
Esther Perel
"Ah, my beloved, fill the cup that clears today of past regrets and future fears."
Pablo Neruda
"It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone"
John Steinbeck
"Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment."
Aldous Huxley
"In the end, I am reduced by my choices whether bad or good."
Anne Sexton
"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible, nostalgia for what never was, the desire for what could have been, regret over not being someone else, dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."
Fernando Pessoa
"My past is everything I failed to be."
Fernando Pessoa
"Always saw you for what you could've been "
Drake
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